Nehemiah 4:1-7

1And it came to pass that when SanballatH5571 heardH8085 that we built the wallH2346, he wasH1961 angryH2734 and veryH3966 indignant, and mocked the Jews.

2And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? shall they be permitted to goH935 on? Will they offerH6213 sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, when they are burned?

3And Tobijah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox went up, it would break down their stone wall. —

4Hear, our 1God, for we are despised, and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in a land of captivity!

5And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked the builders.

6But we built the wall; and all the wall wasH1961 joined together to the half thereof; for the people had a mind to work.

7And it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobijah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the wallsH2346 of Jerusalem were being repaired, that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,