Nehemiah 4:4-6

Good News Translation

⁴ I prayed, “Hear how they make fun of us, O God! Let their ridicule fall on their own heads. Let them be robbed of everything they have, and let them be taken as prisoners to a foreign land. ⁵ Don't forgive the evil they do and don't forget their sins, for they have insulted us who are building.”

⁶ So we went on rebuilding the wall, and soon it was half its full height, because the people were eager to work.