Nehemiah 4:8-10

Revised Geneva Translation

⁸ and conspired together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder them.

⁹ Then we prayed to our God. And because of them we set watchmen against them, day and night.

¹⁰ And Judah said, “The strength of the bearers has weakened. And there is much earth, so that we are not able to build the wall.”