Nehemiah 4:5

May you not conceal their iniquity, and may their sin not be wiped away, before your face, for they have ridiculed those who are building.

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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

4Listen, O our God, for we have become an object of contempt. Turn their reproach upon their own head, and grant that they may be despised in a land of captivity.

6And so we built the wall, and we joined it together, even to the unfinished portion. And the heart of the people was stirred up for the work.

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Cross References

Psalms 51:1Unto the end. The understanding of David.

Psalms 59:5You have revealed to your people difficulties. You have made us drink the wine of remorse.

Isaiah 43:25I am. I am the very One who wipes away your iniquities for my own sake. And I will not remember your sins.

Jeremiah 18:23But you, O Lord, know all their plans against me unto death. May you not forgive their iniquity, and do not allow their sin be taken away from your face. Let them be thrown down in your sight, in the time of your fury, so that you may destroy them.

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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