Ezra 4:4
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,In other versions
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
ASV
Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;
BBE
And the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building;
DBY
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
WEB
And it cometh to pass, the people of the land are making the hands of the people of Judah feeble, and troubling them in building,
YLT
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
ENG
Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
WBT
Then the people of the land set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to build.
BSB
In context
2Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
3But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
4Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
5And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
6And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.