Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

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.

And I send unto him, saying, 'It hath not been according to these words that thou art saying, for from thine own heart thou art devising them;'

Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.

Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.

And I sent to them, saying: "There has been nothing done according to these words, which you have spoken. For you are inventing these things from your own heart."

There are no such things done - You well know that what you say is false: I shall not, therefore, trouble myself about a false charge.

Then I sent unto him,.... Whether a letter, or a messenger, is not said:
saying there are no such things done as thou sayest; that there was any scheme formed to rebel, and make him king, or that prophets were appointed to declare him such:
but thou feignest them out of thine own heart; in short, that they were no other than lies of his own inventing.

Nehemiah, however, saw through his stratagem, and sent word to him by a messenger: "There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart." בּודאם, a contraction of בּודאם, from בּדא, which occurs again only in 1-Kings 12:33, to invent, to feign, especially evil things.