Nehemiah 4:5

Do not cover over their iniquity and do not erase their sin from before you, for they have provoked the builders to anger.

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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, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunts on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are prisoners.

6So we built the wall and all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a desire to work.

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Cross References

Psalms 51:1Have mercy on me, God, because of your covenant faithfulness; 1 for the sake of the multitude of your merciful actions, blot out my transgressions. 1

Psalms 59:5You, Yahweh God of hosts, the God of Israel, 1 arise and punish all the nations; 1 do not be merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah 1

Psalms 109:14May his ancestors' sins be mentioned to Yahweh; 1 and may the sin of his mother not be forgotten. 1

Isaiah 43:25I, yes, I, am he who blots out your offenses for my own sake; and I will not call to mind your sins any longer. 1

Jeremiah 18:23But you, Yahweh, you know all of their plans against me to kill me. 1 Do not forgive their iniquities and sins. Do not wipe their sins away from you. 1 Instead, let them be overthrown before you. Act against 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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