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Exhausted burden bearers pause among rubble as families pray and sentries watch the wall.
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Nehemiah 4:3-4

Prayer Among the Rubble

Work and Watch · Nehemiah 4

Story guide: The people pray and post a constant guard even as Judah admits the workers are failing beneath the rubble.

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3So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard against them day and night because of them.

4And Judah said, “The strength of the burden-bearers has failed, and there is much rubble, and we are not able to build the wall.”

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