Then Judah said, "The strength of the laborers is failing, and there is so much rubbish that we are not able to build the wall."
Nehemiah 4:10
Surrounding context
4:9 Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night.
4:10 Then Judah said, "The strength of the laborers is failing, and there is so much rubbish that we are not able to build the wall."
4:11 And our adversaries said, "They will neither know nor see anything, till we come into their midst and kill them and cause the work to cease."