Nehemiah 6:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

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.

¹⁰ One day when I went into the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house, he said, ‘Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you; indeed, tonight they are coming to kill you.’ ¹¹ But I said, ‘Should a man like me run away? Would a man like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in!’