Nehemiah 6:7-9

Christian Standard Bible

⁷ and have even set up the prophets in Jerusalem to proclaim on your behalf, “There is a king in Judah.”^(A) These rumors will be heard by the king. So come, let’s confer together.

⁸ Then I replied to him, “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”^{(B) 9} For they were all trying to intimidate^(C) us, saying, “They will drop their hands from^[a] the work,^(D) and it will never be finished.”

But now, my God, strengthen my hands.^(E)