5And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked the builders.


In Context

2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? shall they be permitted to go on? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, when they are burned?

3 And Tobijah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox went up, it would break down their stone wall. —

4 Hear, our God, for we are despised, and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in a land of captivity!

5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked the builders.

6 But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof; for the people had a mind to work.

7 And it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobijah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being repaired, that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

Nehemiah 4:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:5And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:5Do not cover up their guilt or blot out their sins from your sight, for they have thrown insults in the face of the builders.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:5Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:5and 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:5and 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5and do not cover over their iniquity, and their sin from before Thee let not be blotted out, for they have provoked to anger — over-against those building.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:5And 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.