Nehemiah 4

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1 When Sanballat heard that we are building a wall, he became angry and was annoyed and mocked at the Jews;
2 And spoke with his brothers and with the Samaritan military men, and said: what do these miserable Jews do? Really it will allow them? Will they really make a sacrifice? Will they ever finish? Will they revive the stones from the ashes of the dust, and burnt?
3 And Tobiah the Ammonite, [beside him] said: "Let them build; Go fox, and destroy their stone wall.
4 Hear, O our God, in what we despise, and turn their curse upon their head, and give them up to contempt in the land of captivity;
5 And do not cover their iniquities, and let not their sin be blotted out before your face, because they grieved the builders!
6th We nevertheless built a wall, and the whole wall was folded up to half of it. And the people got the zeal to work.

7th When Sanballat and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being restored, that the damage began to be sealed, they were very vexed.
8 And they conspired together to go to war with Jerusalem and destroy it.
9 And we prayed to our God, and set guard against them day and night, to save them from them.
10 But the Jews said: the power of the porters has waxed weak, but there is a lot of garbage; We are not able to build a wall.
eleven And our enemies said: they will not recognize or see how [suddenly] we will enter into their midst and kill them, and stop the matter.
12 When the Jews who were living near them came and told us ten times, from all places, that they would attack us:
13 Then in the low places near the city, behind the wall, in dry places I set up a people in a tribe with their swords, with their spears and their bows.
14 And I looked, and stood, and said to the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people: Do not be afraid of them; Remember the Lord great and terrible, and fight for your brothers, for your sons and for your daughters, for your wives and for your houses.
15 When our enemies heard that we knew [their], then God devised their plan, and we all returned to the wall, each to his work.

16 Since that day, half of the young people have been working for me, and [the other half] kept spears, shields and bows and armor; And the rulers [were] behind the whole house of Judah.
17th Those who built the wall and wore the burdens that they imposed [on them], with one hand they made work, and with the other held a spear.
18 Everyone who built the girdle was a sword at his loins, and [so] they built. A trumpeter was by me.
19 And I said to the nobles and to the commanders and to the rest of the people: the work is great and extensive, and we are scattered on the wall and distant from each other;
20 Therefore, from where you will hear the sound of the trumpet, gather in that place to us: Our God will fight for us.
21 So we did the work; And half held the spears from the dawn until the stars appeared.
22 Above that, at the same time, I told the people that everyone would spend the night in Jerusalem with their slaves, and they would be our guardian at night, and in the daytime at work.
23 And neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the guardians who accompanied me, took off their garments, each had a sword and water under his hand.

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