<p class="bodytext">After him the priests worked, men of the nearby district.

<p class="bodytext">Above the Horse Gate the priests worked, each in front of his house.

And between the room above the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and traders worked.p>

The men of Tekoa worked on the section adjacent to them, but their town leaders<n id="1" /> would not assist<n id="2" /> with the work of their master.<n id="3" />p>

After him their relatives<n id="1" /> worked &#8211; Binnui<n id="2" /> son of Henadad, head of a half-district of Keilah.

After them the men of Tekoa worked on another section, from opposite the great protruding tower to the wall of Ophel.p>

<p class="poetry">Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">continually turn away from me in apostasy?p> <p class="poetry">They hold fast to their deception.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They refuse to turn back to me.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah worked on the Jeshanah Gate.<n id="1" /> They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

<p class="bodytext">After him the Levites worked &#8211; Rehum son of Bani and<n id="1" /> after him Hashabiah, head of half the district of Keilah, for his district.

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all<n id="1" /> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The people of Israel are oppressed.p> <p class="poetry">So too are the people of Judah.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners.p> <p class="poetry">They refuse to set them free.p>

<p class="poetry">Give the signal to attack Babylon&#8217;s wall!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Bring more guards!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Post them all around the city!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Put men in ambush!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> will do what he has planned.p> <p class="poetry">He will do what he said he would do to the people of Babylon.<n id="5" />p>