Tobiæ 9:9

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Dedit autem regi centum viginti talenta auri, et aromata multa nimis, et gemmas pretiosissimas : non fuerunt aromata talia ut hæc, quæ dedit regina Saba regi Salomoni.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
quia servi sumus, et in servitute nostra non dereliquit nos Deus noster, sed inclinavit super nos misericordiam coram rege Persarum, ut daret nobis vitam, et sublimaret domum Dei nostri, et exstrueret solitudines ejus, et daret nobis sepem in Juda et Jerusalem.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Quia servi sumus, et in servitute nostra non dereliquit nos Deus noster, sed inclinavit super nos misericordiam regum Persarum, ut darent nobis solacium, et erigeretur domus Dei nostri, et instaurarentur ruinae eius, et dedit nobis refugium in Iuda et Ierusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we were bondmen: Nehemiah 9:36, Nehemiah 9:37

yet our God: Psalms 106:45, Psalms 106:46, Psalms 136:23, Psalms 136:24, Ezekiel 11:16

in the sight: Ezra 1:1-4, Ezra 1:7-11, Ezra 6:1-12, Ezra 7:6, Ezra 7:8, 11-28

to set up: Ezra 6:14, Ezra 6:15, Haggai 1:9, Zechariah 4:6-10

repair: Heb. set up

a wall: Or rather, a hedge or fence, gader, such as were made for sheep-folds. Isaiah 5:2, Isaiah 5:5, Daniel 9:25, Zechariah 2:5

Reciprocal: Ezra 7:28 - extended Ezra 9:8 - grace hath Nehemiah 1:2 - that had escaped Esther 4:14 - enlargement Psalms 85:6 - revive Isaiah 14:3 - General Isaiah 49:24 - lawful captive Jeremiah 51:5 - Israel Lamentations 3:22 - of Micah 7:19 - turn John 8:33 - and were Revelation 21:12 - a wall

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For we were bondmen,.... To the Chaldeans when in Babylon, which was more than the Jews in the times of Christ would own, John 8:33,

yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage; had not left them to continue in it always:

but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia; moved them to have pity and compassion on them, and release them:

to give us a reviving; while in captivity, they were as in their graves, and like the dry bones in Ezekiel's vision, but revived upon the proclamation of Cyrus, and the encouragement he gave them to return to their own land:

to set up the house of our God, and repair the desolations thereof; both to rebuild the temple, and to restore the worship of it:

and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem; not to set up the walls of Jerusalem, and of other cities, which as yet was not done; but rather the walls of their houses, which they had rebuilt; they had walled houses given them in Judah and Jerusalem; though the word signifies an hedge or fence, such as is about gardens and vineyards, and may denote the protection of the kings of Persia, which was a fence to them against the Samaritans and others; and especially the hedge of divine Providence about them, which guarded and defended them, see Job 1:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

We were bondmen - Rather, “we are bondmen” (compare the marginal reference). The Israelites, though returned from the captivity, were still “bondmen.” The Persian monarch was their absolute lord and master.