Nehemiah 4:3-7

Nehemiah 4:3-7

[3] Now Tobiah  the Ammonite  was by him,  and he said,  Even that which they build,  if a fox  go up,  he shall even break down  their stone  wall.  [4] Hear,  O our God;  for we are despised:  and turn  their reproach  upon their own head,  and give  them for a prey  in the land  of captivity:  [5] And cover  not their iniquity,  and let not their sin  be blotted out  from before  thee: for they have provoked thee to anger  before the builders.  [6] So built  we the wall;  was joined together  unto the half  thereof: for the people  had a mind  to work.  [7] But it came to pass, that when Sanballat,  and Tobiah,  and the Arabians,  and the Ammonites,  and the Ashdodites,  heard  that the walls  of Jerusalem  were made up,  and that the breaches  began  to be stopped,  then they were very  wroth,