11. But I replied, "Should someone like me run away? Who like me would go into the temple to save his life? I won’t go in!"
12. Then I realized that God hadn’t sent him at all but that he spoke this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
13. He was hired to frighten me and to make me sin by acting in this way. Then they could give me a bad name and discredit me.
14. My God, remember these deeds of Tobiah and Sanballat! Also remember Noadiah the prophetess and the rest of the prophets who have been trying to frighten me.
15. So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul. It took fifty-two days.