Nehemiah 4:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² And said before his brethren, and the multitude of the Samaritans: What are the silly Jews doing? Will the Gentiles let them alone? will they sacrifice and make an end in a day? are they able to raise stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, which are burnt?

³ Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.

⁴ Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.