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.


In Context

2 And he spoke 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 build, if a fox should go up, he would even break down their stone wall.

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

5 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.

6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half of it, for the people had a mind to work.

7 But it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were set up, and 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 Darby 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 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 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.