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Jerusalem's community prays and passes stones along a continuous wall rising at dawn.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Nehemiah 3:36-38

The People Had a Heart to Work

A Heart to Work · Nehemiah 3

Story guide: The people answer contempt with prayer, and the whole wall is joined to half its height because they have a heart to work.

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36Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn their reproach back on their own heads, and give them over as plunder in a land of captivity.

37And do not cover over their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you, for they have provoked anger in the presence of the builders.

38So we rebuilt the wall, and the whole wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a heart to work.

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