4. Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn on their head and give them over to plunder in the land of captivity.
5. Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you. They have provoked the builders to anger.
6. So we rebuilt the wall, and all of the wall was joined up to half its height. For the people had a heart to do it.
7. Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem were going forward and the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.
8. So all of them plotted together to come fight against Jerusalem and to make trouble for it.
9. So we prayed to our God and set up a guard against them day and night.
10. But Judah said, “The strength of the carriers is failing, and there is too much dirt, and we are not able to build at the wall.”