Nehemiah 4:5
Modern Translations
New International Version
Do not cover up their guilt or blot out their sins from your sight, for they have thrown insults in the face of the builders.

New Living Translation
Do not ignore their guilt. Do not blot out their sins, for they have provoked you to anger here in front of the builders.”

English Standard Version
Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.

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

New American Standard Bible
Do not forgive their guilt and do not let their sin be wiped out before You, for they have demoralized the builders.

NASB 1995
Do not forgive their iniquity and let not their sin be blotted out before You, for they have demoralized the builders.

NASB 1977
Do not forgive their iniquity and let not their sin be blotted out before Thee, for they have demoralized the builders.

Amplified Bible
Do not forgive their wrongdoing and do not let their sin be wiped out before You, for they have offended the builders [and provoked You].

Christian Standard Bible
Do not cover their guilt or let their sin be erased from your sight, because they have angered the builders.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Do not cover their guilt or let their sin be erased from Your sight, because they have provoked the builders.

Contemporary English Version
Don't forgive the mean and evil way they have insulted the builders."

Good News Translation
Don't forgive the evil they do and don't forget their sins, for they have insulted us who are building."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Don't ignore their guilt, and don't let their sins disappear from your records. They have insulted you in front of these builders."

International Standard Version
Don't atone their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you, because they have demoralized the builders."

NET Bible
Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from before them. For they have bitterly offended the builders!
Classic Translations
King James 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.

New King James Version
Do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You; for they have provoked You to anger before the builders.

King James 2000 Bible
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.

New Heart English Bible
do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders."

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."

American King James Version
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.

American Standard 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.

A Faithful Version
And do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You, for they have thrown insults in the face of the builders.

Darby Bible Translation
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked the builders.

English Revised 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And couer not their iniquitie, neither let their sinne be put out in thy presence: for they haue prouoked vs before the builders.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Couer not their wickednesse, and let not their sinne be put out in thy presence: for they haue prouoked the buylders.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Couer not their wickednesse, & put not out their sinne fro yi presence: for they haue prouoked the buylders.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and do not cover over their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You, for they have provoked [You] to anger in front of those building.

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.

Smith's Literal Translation
And thou wilt not cover over their iniquity, and their sin shall not be wiped away before thee: for they provoked before the builders.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.

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.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Do not forgive their debts, and let not their sins be blotted out before you, because they rage against the building that we build!

Lamsa Bible
And forgive not their offenses, and let not their sins be blotted out from before thee; for they are enraged, and have opposed the building which we are doing.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before Thee; for they have vexed Thee before the builders.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and do not cover their iniquity.
















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