Nehemiah 4:2-4

New American Standard Bible 1995

² He spoke in the presence of his brothers and ^(A)the ^[a]wealthy men of Samaria and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore it for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the ^[b](B)dusty rubble even the burned ones?” ³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was near him and he said, “Even what they are building—^(C)if a fox should ^[c]jump on it, he would break their stone wall down!”

^4 (D)Hear, O our God, how we are despised! ^(E)Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity.