Nehemiah 4:5

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

In context

3 Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”

4 Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.

5 Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

6 So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

7 When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,

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Nehemiah 4:5 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
KJV King James Version: 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.
WEB World English Bible: Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
ASV American Standard Version: 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.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: and do not cover over their iniquity, and their sin from before Thee let not be blotted out, for they have provoked to anger — over-against those building.
DBY Darby Translation: And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked the builders.
WBS Webster Bible: 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.