Nehemiah 4:1-11 (3:33) And it came to pass, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, that it displeased him, and he became very angry, and he mocked at the Jews.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ ^(3:33) And it came to pass, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, that it displeased him, and he became very angry, and he mocked at the Jews. ² ^(3:34) And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will people suffer them to build? will they sacrifice? will they complete it in one day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, seeing that they have been burnt? ³ ^(3:35) And Tobiyah the ‘Ammonite was near him, and he said, Even what they are building, if a fox were to run up, he would readily break through their stone wall. ⁴ ^(3:36) Hear, O our God! how we are become a scorn; and bring their reproach back upon their own head, and give them up for prey in the land of captivity. ⁵ ^(3:37) And cover not up their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have taunted us in the presence of the builders. ⁶ ^(3:38) But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together up to the half thereof; for the people had a heart to work. ⁷ ^(4:1) And it came to pass, when Sanballat and Tobiyah, and the Arabians, and the ‘Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were restored, and that the breaches began to be closed up, that it displeased them greatly. ⁸ ^(4:2) And they conspired all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to do it an injury. ⁹ ^(4:3) But we prayed unto our God, and set a watch over them day and night, because of the others. ¹⁰ ^(4:4) And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of the burden is failing, and there is much rubbish; and we are not able to build on the wall. ¹¹ ^(4:5) And our adversaries said, “They shall not know, nor see until we come in the midst of them, and slay them, and so stop the work.”