Nehemiah 4:7-11

⁷Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repair of the walls of Jerusalem went on, and that the breaches began to be closed, they were very angry. ⁸So all of them conspired together to come to fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.

⁹But we prayed to our God, and because of them we set up a guard against them day and night.

¹⁰And so in Judah it was said:

“The strength of the burden bearers is failing,

Yet there is much rubble;

And we ourselves are unable

To rebuild the wall.”

¹¹And our enemies said, “They will not know or see until we come among them, kill them, and put a stop to the work.”