And I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anyone what my God was putting into my mind to do for Jerusalem and there was no animal with me except the animal on which I was riding.

Then I passed on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no place for my mount to pass.

So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

Then I sent a message to him saying, “Such things as you are saying have not been done, but you are inventing them in your own mind.”

“Then You came down on Mount Sinai,
And spoke with them from heaven;
You gave them just ordinances and true laws,
Good statutes and commandments.