Nehemiah 4:7-9

New American Standard Bible

^7 [a]Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the ^[b]repair of the walls of Jerusalem went ^[c]on, and that the breaches began to be closed, they were very angry. ⁸ So all of them ^(A)conspired together to come to fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.

Discouragement Overcome

⁹ But we prayed to our God, and because of them we ^(B)set up a guard against them day and night.