New Revised Standard Version
So I remonstrated with the officials and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” And I gathered them together and set them in their stations.

Contemporary English Version
I called the leaders together and angrily asked them, "Why is the temple neglected?" Then I told them to start doing their jobs.

New American Bible
I reprimanded the magistrates, demanding, “Why is the house of God neglected?” Then I brought the Levites together and had them resume their stations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I pleaded the matter against the magistrates, and said: Why have we forsaken the house of God? And I gathered them together, and I made them to stand in their places.

And I pleaded the matter against the magistrates, and said: Why have we forsaken the house of God? And I gathered them together, and I made them to stand in their places.

contend.

Nehemiah 13:17,25 And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and said to them: What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day: . . .

Nehemiah 5:6-13 And I was exceedingly angry when I heard their cry according to these words. . . .

Job 31:34 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.

Proverbs 28:4 They that forsake the law, praise the wicked man: they that keep it, are incensed against him.

Why is the house.

Nehemiah 10:39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall carry to the treasury the firstfruits of corn, of wine, and of oil: and the sanctified vessels shall be there, and the priests, and the singing men, and the porters, and ministers, and we will not forsake the house of our God.

1 Samuel 2:17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord.

Malachi 3:8-11 Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits. . . .

place.