Nehemiah 4:5

The Work Ridiculed

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. 5Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

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Berean Standard Bible
Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
American Standard Version (1901)
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.
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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.
Free Bible Version
Don't forgive their guilt or blot out their sins, for they have made you angry in front of 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.
King James (Authorized) 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.
Translation for Translators
They are guilty; they have said things that caused you to be angry while the people here who are building the wall are listening; so punish them!”
Unlocked Literal Bible
Do not cover over their iniquity and do not erase their sin from before you, for they have provoked the builders to anger.
Noah Webster 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.
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.”
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.