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He spoke in the presence of his brothers and ^(b)the ^[b]wealthy men of Samaria and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore it for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the ^[c](c)dusty rubble even the burned ones?"

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

^(e)Hear, O our God, how we are despised! ^(f)Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity.