3. Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”
4. “Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity;
5. don’t cover their iniquity, and don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
6. So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.