Nehemiah 4:1-6 But it came to pass, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, it angered him, and he was greatly displeased,–

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ But it came to pass, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, it angered him, and he was greatly displeased,––and mocked the Jews; ² and spake before his brethren, and the army of Samaria, and said, What are, these feeble Jews, doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they bring to life the stones out of the heaps of dust, when, they, have been burned up? ³ Now, Tobiah the Ammonite, was beside him,––so he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox should go up, he would break down their stone wall! ⁴ Hear, O our God, for we have become a contempt, and turn thou back their reproach upon their own head,––and give them up as a prey, in the land of captivity; ⁵ and do not cover their iniquity, and, their sin before thee, let it not be blotted out,––for they have caused vexation before them who are building. ⁶ So we built the wall, and all the wall was finished unto the half thereof,––and the people had a mind to work.