Nehemiah 4:1-6 (New Living Translation)
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1
Sanballat was very angry when he learned that we were rebuilding the wall. He flew into a rage and mocked the Jews,
2
saying in front of his friends and the Samarian army officers, "What does this bunch of poor, feeble Jews think they are doing? Do they think they can build the wall in a day if they offer enough sacrifices? Look at those charred stones they are pulling out of the rubbish and using again!"
3
Tobiah the Ammonite, who was standing beside him, remarked, "That stone wall would collapse if even a fox walked along the top of it!"
4
Then I prayed, "Hear us, O our God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land!
5
Do not ignore their guilt. Do not blot out their sins, for they have provoked you to anger here in the presence of a the builders."
6
At last the wall was completed to half its original height around the entire city, for the people had worked very hard.
Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. (New Living Translation - The Bible Online)
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