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and said in front of his allies[a] and the army of Samaria, “What are those pathetic Jews doing? Will they restore[b] it by themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in one day? Will they refurbish the stones that came from the piles of rubble that have been burned?”

Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him. He said, “Whatever they are building, if even a fox climbed on it, it would break apart the wall made from their stones.”

Listen, O our God, because we are an object of contempt. Turn their ridicule back on their own heads. Hand them over as plunder in a land of captivity.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 4:2 Literally brothers
  2. Nehemiah 4:2 Here the Hebrew word azav, which usually means abandon, seems to mean restore.