Nehemiah 4:4-6

Revised Standard Version

⁴ Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn back their taunt upon their own heads, and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. ⁵ Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight; for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

⁶ So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height. For the people had a mind to work.