4. Listen, O our God, for we have become an object of contempt. Turn their reproach upon their own head, and grant that they may be despised in a land of captivity.
5. May you not conceal their iniquity, and may their sin not be wiped away, before your face, for they have ridiculed those who are building.
6. And so we built the wall, and we joined it together, even to the unfinished portion. And the heart of the people was stirred up for the work.
7. Now it happened that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabs, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites had heard that the walls of Jerusalem had been closed, and that the breaches had begun to be repaired, they were exceedingly angry.
8. And they all gathered together, so that they might go forth and fight against Jerusalem, and so that they might prepare ambushes.
9. And we prayed to our God, and we stationed guards upon the wall, day and night, against them.
10. Then Judah said: "The strength of those who carry has diminished, and the amount of material is very great, and so we will not be able to build the wall."
11. And our enemies said: "Let them neither know, nor realize, until we arrive in their midst, and kill them, and cause the work to cease."