1 ¹ Now when ^qSanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. 2 And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of ^rSamaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves?² Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?” 3 ^qTobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—^sif a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” 4 ^tHear, O our God, for we are despised. ^uTurn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.