Nehemiah 4:8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁸ and all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. ⁹ So we prayed to our God, and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

¹⁰ But Judah said, ‘The strength of the burden-bearers is failing, and there is too much rubbish, so that we are unable to work on the wall.’