Nehemiah 4:5
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.
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Psalms 51:1Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your loving kindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 59:5You therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
Psalms 109:14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember your sins.
Jeremiah 18:23Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of yours anger.
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 →