The rulers didn't know where I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the Kohanim, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.
Then said I to them, You see the evil case that we are in, how Yerushalayim lies waste, and the gates of it are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Yerushalayim, that we be no more a reproach.