“Hear, our God, for we are despised.
Turn back their reproach on their own head.
Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
Don’t cover their iniquity.
Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
But 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 filled, they were very angry;