Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews.

参巴拉听见我们修造城墙就发怒，大大恼恨，嗤笑犹大人，

参巴拉听见我们建造城墙就发怒，非常恼恨，并嗤笑犹太人。

参巴拉听见我们建造城墙就发怒，非常恼恨，并嗤笑犹太人。

参巴拉听说我们正在重建城墙，非常愤怒，就嘲笑犹太人，

当参巴拉听见我们正在重建城墙，就很忿怒，非常恼恨，并且讥讽犹大人。

參巴拉聽見我們修造城牆就發怒，大大惱恨，嗤笑猶大人，

參巴拉聽見我們建造城牆就發怒，非常惱恨，並嗤笑猶太人。

參巴拉聽見我們建造城牆就發怒，非常惱恨，並嗤笑猶太人。

參巴拉聽說我們正在重建城牆，非常憤怒，就嘲笑猶太人，

當參巴拉聽見我們正在重建城牆，就很忿怒，非常惱恨，並且譏諷猶大人。

參巴拉聽說是我們在修造城牆，就發怒，大大惱恨，直嗤笑着猶大人。

參巴拉聞我儕築垣、忿怒恚恨、譏笑猶大人、

撒八拉聞我儕築垣、怒甚、訕謗猶大人、

參巴拉聞我儕建城垣、則甚忿怒嫉恨、並訕笑猶大人、

When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews,

Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall. So he became very angry and upset. He made fun of the Jews.

Sanballat was very angry when he learned that we were rebuilding the wall. He flew into a rage and mocked the Jews,

When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious. He mocked the Jews

Now it came about that when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious and very angry, and he mocked the Jews.

But it so happened, when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, that he was furious and very indignant, and mocked the Jews.

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

When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious. He mocked the Jews

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.

( 3: 33) Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall he became angry and was quite upset. He derided the Jews,

But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said,“ What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him( that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy

and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying,“ Hail, King of the Jews!”

Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel,they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them,“ Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here.”But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel said to them,“ You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to buildand bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.