Nehemiah 6:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁷ You have also set up prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem concerning you, “There is a king in Judah!” And now it will be reported to the king according to these words. So come, therefore, and let us confer together.’ ⁸ Then I sent to him, saying, ‘No such things as you say have been done; you are inventing them out of your own mind’ ⁹ —for they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, ‘Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.’ But now, O God, strengthen my hands.