Nehemiah 4:19-21

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁹ And I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, ‘The work is great and widely spread out, and we are separated far from one another on the wall. ²⁰ Rally to us wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet. Our God will fight for us.’

²¹ So we laboured at the work, and half of them held the spears from break of dawn until the stars came out.