⁴ Hear us, our God, for we are despised.^(A) Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity. ⁵ Do not cover up their guilt^(B) or blot out their sins from your sight,^(C) for they have thrown insults in the face of^[a] the builders.

⁹ But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.