² And he spoke in the presence of his brothers and ^(A)the ^[a]wealthy people of Samaria and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore the temple for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish it in a day? Can they revive the stones from the ^(B)heaps of rubble, even the burned ones?” ³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was near him, and he said, “Even what they are building—^(C)if a fox were to ^[b]jump on it, it would break their stone wall down!”

^4 (D)Hear, O our God, how we are an object of contempt! ^(E)Return their taunting on their own heads, and turn them into plunder in a land of captivity.

² And it came about, ^[a]when it had ^(A)finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,

⁵ Then I said,

³ ‘Who is ^(A)left among you who saw this ^[a]temple in its ^(B)former glory? And how do you see it now? ^[b]Does it not seem to you like nothing ^[c]in comparison?