Nehemiah 6:8
Good News Translation
I sent a reply to him: "Nothing of what you are saying is true. You have made it all up yourself."

New Revised Standard Version
Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done; you are inventing them out of your own mind”

Contemporary English Version
I sent a message back to Sanballat, saying, "None of this is true! You are making it all up."

New American Bible
I sent him this answer: “Nothing of what you report is happening; rather, it is the invention of your own mind.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.

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Acts 24:12,13 And neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man or causing any concourse of the people: neither in the synagogues, nor in the city. . . .

Acts 25:7,10 Who being brought, the Jews stood about him, who were come down from Jerusalem, objecting many and grievious causes, which they could not prove: . . .

thou feignest

Job 13:4 Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.

Psalm 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.

Psalm 38:12 And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.

Psalm 52:2 All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Isaiah 59:4 There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.

Daniel 11:27 And the heart of the two kings shall be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at one table, and they shall not prosper: because as yet the end is unto another time.

Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Context
Sanballat's Conspiracy
7Thou hast also set up prophets, to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying: There is a king in Judea. The king will hear of these things: therefore come now, that we may take counsel together. 8And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.9For all these men thought to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would leave off. Wherefore I strengthened my hands the more:…
Cross References
Nehemiah 6:7
Thou hast also set up prophets, to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying: There is a king in Judea. The king will hear of these things: therefore come now, that we may take counsel together.

Job 13:4
Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.

Psalm 52:2
All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Nehemiah 6:7
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