UNehemiya 4:6-14

Ngakho salwakha umduli; ugange lonke lwahlanganiswa nengxenye yalo, ngokuba amadoda ayeshisekela ukusebenza. Kodwa kwathi lapho uSanibhalati noThobiya nama-Arabhu nabantwana bakwa-Amoni nabase-Ashidodi bezwa ukuthi izindonga zaseJerusalema zazakhiwe nokuthi imifantu isiqalile ukuvalwa, bathukuthela kakhulu. Bonke benza uzungu ukuze beze balwe neJerusalema futhi balivimbele. Nokho sakhuleka kuNkulunkulu wethu, sabamisela abalindi imini nobusuku ngenxa yabo. Wayesethi uJuda: “Amandla abathwali bemithwalo aphelile, kukhona nemfucuza eminingi; ngakho asikwazi ukwakha udonga. Kepha izitha zethu zathi: “Abayikukwazi, abayikukubona, size singene phakathi kwabo, sibabulale, simise umsebenzi.” Kwathi abaJuda ababehlala labo sebefikile, basibikela izikhathi ezilitshumi, bathi: Ezindaweni zonke lapho elizabuyela khona kithi, lizakuba phezu kwenu. Ngase ngimisa ezindaweni eziphansi emva kodonga nasezindaweni eziphakemeyo, ngamisa abantu ngezizukulwane zabo ngenkemba yabo, nemikhonto yabo, neminsalo yabo. Ngase ngibheka, ngasukuma ngathi ezikhulwini nakubabusi nakwabanye abantu: “Ningabesabi; khumbulani uJehova, omkhulu nowesabekayo, nilwele abafowenu, namadodana enu, namadodakazi enu, omkenu, nezindlu zenu.