Nehemiah 4:5

Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

Bible in Basic English

In The 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.

In Context

4Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

6So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.

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Cross References

Psalms 51:1To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.\

Psalms 59:5\59:4\For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

Psalms 109:14Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

Jeremiah 18:23But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 4:2-7

The Opposition of Sanballat, &c.. ( b. c. 445.) 1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they… Read the whole commentary →

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