1. When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly irritated, and he mocked the Jews.
2. He spoke before his relatives and the army of Samaria and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they fortifying themselves? Will they make sacrifices? Can they complete this in a day? Can they revive the burned-up stones out of the rubbish heaps?”
3. Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Even what they are rebuilding, if even a fox climbed it, that would break down their stone wall.”
4. Hear, O our God, that we are despised. Turn their reproach back upon their own head, and give them as spoil in a land of captivity:
5. No longer cover their iniquity nor blot out their sin, which is before You since they have made insults against the builders.