Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Nehemiah 4:5
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Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
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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.
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Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
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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.
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Nehemiah 4
3 Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”
4 Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.
5 Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
6 So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
7 When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,
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