3. Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “Indeed, even if a fox climbed up what they are building, he would break down their stone wall! ”
4. Listen, our God, for we are despised. Make their insults return on their own heads and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.
5. Do not cover their guilt or let their sin be erased from Your sight, because they have provoked the builders.
6. So we rebuilt the wall until the entire wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had the will to keep working.
7. When Sanballat, Tobiah, and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they became furious.