3. And Tobiah the Ammonite [is] by him and saith, `Also, that which they are building--if a fox doth go up, then it hath broken down their stone wall.'
4. Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;
5. and do not cover over their iniquity, and their sin from before Thee let not be blotted out, for they have provoked to anger--over-against those building.
6. And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined--unto its half, and the people have a heart to work.
7. And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that lengthening hath gone up to the walls of Jerusalem, that the breeches have begun to be stopped, then it is very displeasing to them,
8. and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.
9. And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.
10. And Judah saith, `The power of the burden-bearers hath become feeble, and the rubbish [is] abundant, and we are not able to build on the wall.'
11. And our adversaries say, `They do not know, nor see, till that we come in to their midst, and have slain them, and caused the work to cease.'
12. And it cometh to pass, when the Jews have come who are dwelling near them, that they say to us ten times from all the places whither ye return--[they are] against us.
13. And I appoint at the lowest of the places, at the back of the wall, in the clear places, yea, I appoint the people, by their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
14. And I see, and rise up, and say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, `Be not afraid of them; the Lord, the great and the fearful, remember ye, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.'
15. And it cometh to pass, when our enemies have heard that it hath been known to us, and God doth frustrate their counsel, and we turn back, all of us, unto the wall, each unto his work;