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1 And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard that we are building the
wall, that it is displeasing to him, and he is very angry and mocketh at the
Jews,
2 and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith,
`What [are] the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they
sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the
heaps of the rubbish? -- and they burnt!`
3 And Tobiah the Ammonite [is] by him and saith, `Also, that which they are
building -- if a fox doth go up, then it hath broken down their stone wall.`
4 Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach
on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;
5 and do not cover over their iniquity, and their sin from before Thee let
not be blotted out, for they have provoked to anger -- over-against those
building.
6 And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined -- unto its half, and
the people have a heart to work.
7 And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard, and Tobiah, and the
Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that lengthening hath gone
up to the walls of Jerusalem, that the breeches have begun to be stopped,
then it is very displeasing to them,
8 and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against
Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.
9 And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by
night, because of them.
10 And Judah saith, `The power of the burden-bearers hath become feeble, and
the rubbish [is] abundant, and we are not able to build on the wall.`
11 And our adversaries say, `They do not know, nor see, till that we come in
to their midst, and have slain them, and caused the work to cease.`
12 And it cometh to pass, when the Jews have come who are dwelling near
them, that they say to us ten times from all the places whither ye return --
[they are] against us.
13 And I appoint at the lowest of the places, at the back of the wall, in
the clear places, yea, I appoint the people, by their families, with their
swords, their spears, and their bows.
14 And I see, and rise up, and say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects,
and unto the rest of the people, `Be not afraid of them; the Lord, the great
and the fearful, remember ye, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and
your daughters, your wives, and your houses.`
15 And it cometh to pass, when our enemies have heard that it hath been
known to us, and God doth frustrate their counsel, and we turn back, all of
us, unto the wall, each unto his work;
16 yea, it cometh to pass, from that day, half of my servants are working in
the business, and half of them are keeping hold of both the spears, the
shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the heads [are] behind all
the house of Judah.
17 The builders on the wall, and the bearers of the burden, those lading,
[each] with one of his hands is working in the business, and one is laying
hold of the missile.
18 And the builders [are] each with his sword, girded on his loins, and
building, and he who is blowing with a trumpet [is] beside me.
19 And I say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of
the people, `The work is abundant, and large, and we are separated on the
wall, far off one from another;
20 in the place that ye hear the voice of the trumpet thither ye are
gathered unto us; our God doth fight for us.`
21 And we are working in the business, and half of them are keeping hold of
the spears, from the going up of the dawn till the coming forth of the
stars.
22 Also, at that time I said to the people, `Let each with his servant lodge
in the midst of Jerusalem, and they have been to us by night a guard, and by
day [for] the work:`
23 and there are none -- I and my brethren and my servants, the men of the
guard who [are] after me -- there are none of us putting off our garments,
each [hath] his vessel of water.
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