Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince have you power with God and with men, and have prevailed.
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is failing, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.
The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing: he makes the devices of the people of none effect.
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor.
Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Watch therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour: