scp question

For the life of me I can not figure out what I am doing wrong with scp to copy a directory and its contents from a remote machine to my local host. I have no issues with getting a single file but would like to just save time and get the whole folder in one command.

Here is what I have tried:
scp user AT remoteMachine:/home/username/folderIwant user AT localMachine:/folderIwant
this gives me a permission denied error and try again and received disconnect from localHost to many authentication failures

scp user AT remoteMachine:home/username/folderIwant .
says can not find file or folder

I am sure this is something easy that I cant remember, and searches gives me local to remote not remote to local and trying to make the local to remote suggestions I read to work remote to local have not worked. Thanks for any help this

I had to use AT because it thought I was posting links to something and this being a first post is not allowed sorry about that.

>> scp user AT remoteMachine:/home/username/folderIwant user AT localMachine:/folderIwant

The second part user AT localMachine is unnecessary. Just put the filename there.

Thanks for the reply I had tried that already and didnt work.

What I ended up figuring out was that I had to do:
scp -r
since it was a directory with files in it.

I appreciate the post it made me try it again and come up with the fix :)