1 Tendo Sambalate ouvido que edificávamos o muro, ardeu em ira, e se indignou muito, e escarneceu dos judeus. 2 Então, falou na presença de seus irmãos e do exército de Samaria e disse: Que fazem estes fracos judeus? Permitir-se-lhes-á isso? Sacrificarão? Darão cabo da obra num só dia? Renascerão, acaso, dos montões de pó as pedras que foram queimadas? 3 Estava com ele Tobias, o amonita, e disse: Ainda que edifiquem, vindo uma raposa, derribará o seu muro de pedra.

1 But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said: 'What do these feeble Jews? will they restore at will? will they sacrifice? will they make an end this day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?'

3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said: 'Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.'