车辆在街上(或作“城外”)急行，在宽阔处奔来奔去，形状如火把，飞跑如闪电。

The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

住以色列城邑的人必出去捡器械，就是大小盾牌、弓箭、梃杖、枪矛，都当柴烧火，直烧七年；

And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

犹大人说：“灰土尚多，扛抬的人力气已经衰败，所以我们不能建造城墙。”

And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

参巴拉、多比雅、阿拉伯人，亚扪人，亚实突人，听见修造耶路撒冷城墙，着手进行，堵塞破裂的地方，就甚发怒。

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

他对犹大人说：“我们要建造这些城邑，四围筑墙、盖楼、安门、作闩，地还属我们，是因寻求耶和华我们的　神。我们既寻求他，他就赐我们四境平安。”于是建造城邑，诸事亨通。

Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.