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.
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.
2 and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, "What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble-burned as they are?"
3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was at his side, said, "What they are building-if even a fox climbed up on it, he would break down their wall of stones!"
4 Hear us, O our God, for we are despised. Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity.
5 Do not cover up their guilt or blot out their sins from your sight, for they have thrown insults in the face of the builders.
6 So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart.
7 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the men of Ashdod heard that the repairs to Jerusalem's walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.
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.
4:5Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.
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.
4:5And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked the builders.
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.
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.
4:5don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.|
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.
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.