Nehemiah 4:4-6

Contemporary English Version

⁴ But I prayed, “Our God, these people hate us and have wished horrible things for us. Please answer our prayers and make their insults fall on them! Let them be the ones to be dragged away as prisoners of war. ⁵ Don't forgive the mean and evil way they have insulted the builders.”

⁶ The people worked hard, and we built the walls of Jerusalem halfway up again.