Nehemiah 4:5
World English Bible (WEB)
Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
In context
3 Now 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.”
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.
5 Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
7 But 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;
Nehemiah 4:5 in every translation
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.