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.
6. So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was solidified up to half its height. The people had a passion for the work.
7. When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard how the restoration of Jerusalem’s walls was progressing and how the breaches had begun to be sealed, it made them extremely furious.