Nehemiah 4:5
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.
Nehemiah 4:5 in other translations
| BSB | 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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| WEB | Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.” |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | and 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. |
| DARBY | And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked the builders. |
| BBE | Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Nehemiah 4:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 4:4-5
4-5. Hear, O our God; for we are despised--The imprecations invoked here may seem harsh, cruel, and vindictive; but it must be remembered that Nehemiah and his friends regarded those Samaritan leaders as enemies to the cause of God and His people, and therefore as deserving to be visited with heavy judgments. The prayer, therefore, is to be considered as emanating from hearts in which neither hatred, revenge, nor…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nehemiah 4:1-6
Many a good work has been looked upon with contempt by proud and haughty scorners. Those who disagree in almost every thing, will unite in persecution. Nehemiah did not answer these fools according to their folly, but looked up to God by prayer. God's people have often been a despised people, but he hears all the slights that are put upon them, and it is their comfort that he does so. Nehemiah had reason to think…
Nehemiah 4:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Nehemiah 4:5
- Psalms 109:14
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
- Jeremiah 18:23
Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
- Psalms 69:27-28
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
- Isaiah 44:22
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
- 2 Timothy 4:14
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
- Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
- Psalms 51:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath–sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
- Psalms 59:5-13
Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear? But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision. …
- Psalms 51:9
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
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Context
- Nehemiah 4:4
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:
- Nehemiah 4:5
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.
- Nehemiah 4:6
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
Nehemiah 4:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y no cubras su iniquidad, ni su pecado sea raído delante de tu rostro; porque se airaron contra los que edificaban. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et nos ennemis disaient: Ils ne le sauront pas et ne le verront pas, jusqu’à ce que nous arrivions au milieu d’eux: et nous les tuerons, et nous ferons cesser l’ouvrage. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und decke ihre Ungerechtigkeit nicht zu, und ihre Sünde werde nicht ausgelöscht vor deinem Angesicht! Denn sie haben dich gereizt angesichts der Bauenden. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ne operias iniquitatem eorum, et peccatum eorum coram facie tua non deleatur, quia irriserunt ædificantes. |