Nehemiah 8:6
And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
KJV
Et benedixit Esdras Domino Deo magno : et respondit omnis populus : Amen, amen, elevans manus suas : et incurvati sunt, et adoraverunt Deum proni in terram.
Vulgate
καὶ ηὐλόγησεν τὸν κύριον τὸν θεὸν τὸν μέγαν, καὶ ἀπεκρίθη πᾶς ὁ λαὸς καὶ εἶπαν Ἀμήν, καὶ ἔκυψαν καὶ προσεκύνησαν τῷ κυρίῳ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν.
LXX
And Ezra blessed Jehovah, the great God; and all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped Jehovah with their faces to the ground.
ASV
וַ/יְבָ֣רֶךְ עֶזְרָ֔א אֶת יְהוָ֥ה הָ/אֱלֹהִ֖ים הַ/גָּד֑וֹל וַ/יַּֽעֲנ֨וּ כָל הָ/עָ֜ם אָמֵ֤ן אָמֵן֙ בְּ/מֹ֣עַל יְדֵי/הֶ֔ם וַ/יִּקְּד֧וּ וַ/יִּשְׁתַּחֲוֻּ֛ לַ/יהוָ֖ה אַפַּ֥יִם אָֽרְצָ/ה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Chr 16:36 — Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
- 1Chr 29:20 — And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.
- 1Cor 14:16 — Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
- 1Tim 2:8 — I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
- 2Chr 20:18 — And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
- Exod 4:31 — And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
- Exod 12:27 — That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowe
- Gen 24:26 — And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.
- Lam 3:41 — Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
- Lev 9:24 — And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
- Neh 5:13 — Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said,
- Ps 72:18 — Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
- Ps 134:2 — Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
- Rev 7:11 — And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
- Rev 19:4 — And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.