Matthew(i)
1 But when Sanabalat heard that we buylded the wall, he was wroth, and toke great indignacion and mocked the Iewes,
2 and sayde before hys brethren, and the hoste of Samaria: what do the impotente Iewes? shall they be thus suffered? shall they offre? shal they perfourme it in one daye? shal they make the stones whole agayn that are broughte to dust, & brent?
3 And Tobiah the Ammonite besyde him said: let them buyld on, yf a foxe go vp he shall breake doune theyr stonye wall.
4 Hear O thou oure God, howe we are despysed, turne theyr shame vpon theyr owne heade, that thou mayest geue them ouer into despysynge in the land of theyr captiuite.
5 Couer not their wickednesse, and put not oute theyr synne from thy presence: for they haue prouoked the buylders.
6 Yet buylded we the wall, and ioyned it whole together, vnto the halfe heyght. And the people were well mynded to laboure.
7 But when Sanabalat, and Tobiah, & the Arabians, and Ammonites, and Asdodites hearde that the walles of Ierusalem were made vp, and that they had begonne to stoppe vp the gappes they were very wroth,
8 and conspyred all together to come & fyghte agaynste Ierusalem, and to make an hinderaunce there in.
9 Neuertheles we made our prayer vnto our God, and set watchemen vpon the wall daye & nyght ouer agaynst them.
10 And Iuda sayd: the strength of the bearers is to feble, & there is to muche duste, we are not able to buylde on the wall.
11 And oure aduersaryes thoughte: they shall not knowe nether se, tyll we come in the myddes amonge them, and slaye them and hynder the worcke.