בִּין

Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;

And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?