World English Bible
"don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.""
— Nehemiah 4:5, World English Bible
“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. ”
“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.”
He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?"
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall."
"Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;
don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders."
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work.
But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.