4Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:
5Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.
6So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.
7But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;
8And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.
9But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.
10And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.
