Nehemiah 4:5 “Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Yo…”

Nehemiah 4:5

Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And couer not their iniquitie, neither let their sinne be put out in thy presence: for they haue prouoked vs before the builders.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

.mt-body { max-height: none !important; -webkit-mask-image: none !important; mask-image: none !important; } .mt-bar { display: none !important; } .o-trans::after { display: block !important; }

Cross references

“cover not”

Psalm 109:14 Jeremiah 18:23 2 Timothy 4:14 Psalm 59:5–13 Psalm 69:27

Psalm 109:14 · BSB

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

Jeremiah 18:23 · BSB

But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

2 Timothy 4:14 · BSB

Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

Psalm 59:5–13 · BSB

O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah

Psalm 69:27 · BSB

Add iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your righteousness.

“their sin”

Isaiah 44:22 Psalm 51:1 Isaiah 43:25 Psalm 51:9

Isaiah 44:22 · BSB

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

Psalm 51:1 · BSB

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

Isaiah 43:25 · BSB

I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Psalm 51:9 · BSB

Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

“before the builders”

Isaiah 36:11 Isaiah 36:12

Isaiah 36:11 · BSB

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

Isaiah 36:12 · BSB

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Hear 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.

6So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

Read Nehemiah 4