New Revised Standard Version
So we prayed to our God, and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

Contemporary English Version
But we kept on praying to our God, and we also stationed guards day and night.

New American Bible
We prayed to our God and posted a watch against them day and night for fear of what they might do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night against them.

And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night against them.

Nevertheless

Nehemiah 4:11 And our enemies said: Let them not know, nor understand, till we come in the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.

Genesis 32:9-12,28 And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee. . . .

2 Kings 19:14-19 And when Ezechias had received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and had read it, he went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord, . . .

Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 55:16-22 But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me. . . .

Luke 6:11,12 And they were filled with madness: and they talked one with another, what they might do to Jesus. . . .

Acts 4:24-30 Who having heard it, with one accord lifted up their voice to God and said: Lord, thou art he that didst make heaven and earth, the sea and all things that are in them. . . .

set a watch

Matthew 26:41 Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Luke 21:36 Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Son of man.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.