en_cepher - Neh 4 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ BUT it came to pass, that when Canballat heard that we built the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Yahudiym.

² And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Shomeron, and said, What do these feeble Yahudiym? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

³ Now Toviyahu the Ammoniy was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

⁴ Hear, O ELOHAYNU; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

⁵ And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.

⁶ So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

⁷ But it came to pass, that when Canballat, and Toviyahu, and the Araviym, and the Ammoniym, and the Ashdodiym, heard that the walls of Yerushalayim were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

⁸ And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Yerushalayim, and to hinder it.

⁹ Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our Elohiym, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

¹⁰ And Yahudah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

¹¹ And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

¹² And it came to pass, that when the Yahudiym which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.

¹³ Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

¹⁴ And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember Adonai, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your women, and your houses.

¹⁵ And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and Elohiym had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone unto his work.

¹⁶ And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of armor; and the rulers were behind all the house of Yahudah.

¹⁷ They which built on the wall, and they that bore burdens, with those that laded, everyone with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.

¹⁸ For the builders, everyone had his sword girded by his side, and so built. And he that sounded the shofar was by me.

¹⁹ And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.

²⁰ In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the shofar, resort ye thither unto us: our Elohiym shall fight for us.

²¹ So we labored in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

²² Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let everyone with his servant lodge within Yerushalayim, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labor on the day.

²³ So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that everyone put them off for washing.