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Nehemiah 4:5
“don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
Verse in context — Nehemiah 4
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;
About Nehemiah
Rebuilding Jerusalem’s walls and restoring the community’s faith.
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