Nehemiah 4:1-9 ▼

1 And it will be that when Sanballat heard that we are building the wall, and it will kindle to him, and he will be greatly angry, and he will mock against the Jews.

2 And he will say before his brethren and the strength of Shomeron, and he will say, What are the feeble Jews doing? will they leave to themselves? will they sacrifice? will they finish in a day? will they give life to the stones of the heaps of dust, and they being burnt?

3 And Tobiah the Ammonite near him, and he will say, Also that they are building, if a fox shall go up, and he brake their walls of stones.

4 Hear, O our God; for we were despised: and turn back their reproach upon their head, and wilt thou give them for plunder in the land of captivity?

5 And thou wilt not cover over their iniquity, and their sin shall not be wiped away before thee: for they provoked before the builders.

6 And we shall build the wall; and all the wall will be completed even to its half: and a heart will be to the people to work.

7 And it will be that when Sanballat heard, and Tobiah, and the Arabians and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that healing ascended to the walls of Jerusalem, that the breaches began to be stopped, and it kindled to them greatly;

8 And they will conspire all of them together to come to war against Jerusalem, and to do damage to it.

9 And we will pray to our God, and we shall set up a watch against them day and night, from before them.