Nehemiah 4:5-7

New Century Version

⁵ Do not hide their guilt or take away their sins so that you can’t see them, because they have insulted the builders.”

⁶ So we rebuilt the wall to half its height, because the people were willing to work.

⁷ But Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the people from Ashdod were very angry when they heard that the repairs to Jerusalem’s walls were continuing and that the holes in the wall were being closed.