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And he spoke in the presence of his brothers and ^(C1)the ^(F1)wealthy people of Samaria and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore the temple for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish it in a day? Can they revive the stones from the ^(C2)heaps of rubble, even the burned ones?"

Now Tobiah the Ammonite was near him, and he said, "Even what they are building—^(C1)if a fox were to ^(F1)jump on it, it would break their stone wall down!"

^(C1)Hear, O our God, how we are an object of contempt! ^(C2)Return their taunting on their own heads, and turn them into plunder in a land of captivity.