Nehemiah 4:5

and do not cover their iniquity, and, their sin before thee, let it not be blotted out,—for they have caused vexation before them who are building.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, O our God, for we have become a contempt, and turn thou back their reproach upon their own head,—and give them up as a prey, in the land of captivity;

6So we built the wall, and all the wall was finished unto the half thereof,—and the people had a mind to work.

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Cross References

Psalms 51:1Be favorable unto me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness, And, in the multitude of thy compassions, blot out my transgressions;

Psalms 59:5Thou, therefore, O Yahweh, God of hosts, God of Israel, Awake, to visit all the nations, Do not show favour to any iniquitous traitors. [Selah.]

Psalms 109:14Remembered be the iniquity of his fathers against Yahweh, and, the sin of his mother, let it not be wiped out;

Isaiah 43:25I—I, am he that is ready, To wipe out thy transgressions for mine own sake,—And, thy sins, not remember.

Jeremiah 18:23But, thou, O Yahweh, knowest all their counsels against me to put me to death, Put thou no propitiatory-covering over their iniquity, And their sin from before thee, do not thou blot out,—But let them be overthrown before thee, In the time of thine anger, deal thou effectively with 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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