Nehemiah 4:17-19

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁷ Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held a sword.

¹⁸ For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.

¹⁹ And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: The work is great and wide, and we are separated on the wall one far from another: