MLV(i)
1 But it happened that, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and took great indignation and mocked the Jews.
2 And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burnt?
3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him and he said, Even what they are building, if a fox goes up he will break down their stone wall.
4 Hear, O our God, for we are despised and so turn back their reproach upon their own head and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity, 5 and do not cover their iniquity and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you, for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.
6 So we built the wall and all the wall was joined together to half the height of it, for the people had a mind to work.
3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him and he said, Even what they are building, if a fox goes up he will break down their stone wall.
4 Hear, O our God, for we are despised and so turn back their reproach upon their own head and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity, 5 and do not cover their iniquity and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you, for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.
6 So we built the wall and all the wall was joined together to half the height of it, for the people had a mind to work.