World English Bible
"But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them."
— Nehemiah 4:9, World English Bible
“Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.”
“But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. ”
“So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard to protect against them both day and night.”
“And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night against them.”
“But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.”
“Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.”
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;
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Judah said, "The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall."
Our adversaries said, "They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease."
It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, "Wherever you turn, they will attack us."