Nehemiah 4:5

And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee,.... Let it not go unpunished, and even let it not be pardoned; which is spoken, not from a private spirit of…

Let not their sin be blotted out - These are the most terrible imprecations; but probably we should understand them as declaratory, for the same form of the verb, in the Hebrew, is used as precative…

Here is, I. The spiteful scornful reflection which Sanballat and Tobiah cast upon the Jews for their attempt to build the wall about Jerusalem. The country rang of it presently; intelligence was…

and cover not their iniquity i.e. forgive it not. Cf. Psa 85:2, -Thou hast forgiventhe iniquity of thy people, thou hast coveredall their sin" i.e. so as not to see and visit it.

and let not their sin…