Catholic Public Domain Version
"May you not conceal their iniquity, and may their sin not be wiped away, before your face, for they have ridiculed those who are building. "
— Nehemiah 4:5, Catholic Public Domain 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.”
“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. ”
“don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders."”
“Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from your sight. For they have bitterly offended the builders!”
“Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.”
“Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.”
“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.”
And he said, before his brothers and a crowd of the Samaritans: “What are the foolish Jews doing? Can it be that the Gentiles will allow them? Will they sacrifice and finish in one day? Do they have the ability to make stones out of piles of dust that have been burned up?”
Then too, Tobiah, an Ammonite, his assistant, said: “Let them build. When the fox climbs, he will leap over their stone wall.”
Listen, O our God, for we have become an object of contempt. Turn their reproach upon their own head, and grant that they may be despised in a land of captivity.
May you not conceal their iniquity, and may their sin not be wiped away, before your face, for they have ridiculed those who are building.
And so we built the wall, and we joined it together, even to the unfinished portion. And the heart of the people was stirred up for the work.
Now it happened that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabs, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites had heard that the walls of Jerusalem had been closed, and that the breaches had begun to be repaired, they were exceedingly angry.
And they all gathered together, so that they might go forth and fight against Jerusalem, and so that they might prepare ambushes.