King James Version (KJV)
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.”
Verse in context — Nehemiah 4
Now Tobiah the Ammonite [was] by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
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:
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.
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
But it came to pass, [that] when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
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Rebuilding Jerusalem’s walls and restoring the community’s faith.
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