Nehemiah 4:5

Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

4Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.

6So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half thereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work.

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Cross References

Psalms 51:1Unto the end, a psalm of David,

Psalms 59:5Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps.

Psalms 109:14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Isaiah 43:25I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Jeremiah 18:23But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: forgive not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou 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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