In Context

3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, |What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.|

4 |Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

5 don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.|

6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half the height of it: for the people had a mind to work.

7 But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;

8 and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

Nehemiah 4:6 in Other Translations