World English Bible
""Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;"
— Nehemiah 4:4, World English Bible
“Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:”
“Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity; ”
“Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!”
“Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.”
“Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:”
“Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:”
But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?"
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall."
"Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;
don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders."
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work.
But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;