But when Sanvallat the Choronite, and Toviyah the servant, the `Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?
For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Yisra'el, *You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.* You refused,
You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved?
that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'*