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不要遮掩他們的罪孽,不要使他們的罪惡從你面前塗抹,因為他們在修造的人眼前惹動你的怒氣。 這樣,我們修造城牆,城牆就都連絡,高至一半,因為百姓專心做工。

敵黨同謀擾阻

參巴拉多比雅阿拉伯人、亞捫人、亞實突人,聽見修造耶路撒冷城牆,著手進行堵塞破裂的地方,就甚發怒。

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Do not cover up their guilt(A) or blot out their sins from your sight,(B) for they have thrown insults in the face of[a] the builders.

So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart.

But when Sanballat, Tobiah,(C) the Arabs, the Ammonites and the people of Ashdod heard that the repairs to Jerusalem’s walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.

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  1. Nehemiah 4:5 Or have aroused your anger before

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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