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Nehemiah 4:5

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Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”

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Nehemiah 4:5 in other translations

and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

Nehemiah 4:5 · American Standard Version

Nehemiah 4:5 in context

  1. 3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”
  2. 4“Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
  3. 5Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
  4. 6So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.
  5. 7But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;