and spake before his brethren, and the army of Samaria, and said, What are, these feeble Jews, doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they bring to life the stones out of the heaps of dust, when, they, have been burned up?

And Judah will say, The strength of the bearer was weak, and the dust much; and we shall not be able to build upon the wall.

So we worked on, with half holding spears, from dawn till dusk.

On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.