5and don`t cover their iniquity, and don`t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have provoked [you] to anger before the builders.
6So 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.
7But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;
8and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
9But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
10Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
11Our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.