^{3 Ref} Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.

^{4 Ref} Hear, our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

^{5 Ref} and don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have provoked [you] to anger before the builders.

^{6 Ref} So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work.

^{7 Ref} But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;