13. He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.
14. Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat in light of these actions of theirs – also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who were trying to scare me!
15. So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in just fifty-two days.
16. When all our enemies heard and all the nations who were around us saw this, they were greatly disheartened. They knew that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
17. In those days the aristocrats of Judah repeatedly sent letters to Tobiah, and responses from Tobiah were repeatedly coming to them.