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# Hear, our God, ... for they have provoked the builders to anger
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Here Nehemiah is praying to God. This can be stated clearly and written with quotation marks. AT: "Then I prayed, 'Hear, our God, ... for they have provoked the builders to anger'" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# Hear, our God, for we are despised
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Here the word "we" refers to the Jews. This can be stated in active form. AT: "Hear, our God, for our enemies despise us" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# give them up to be plundered
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This can be stated in active form. AT: "let their enemies rob them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# Turn back their taunts on their own heads
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The phrase "their taunts" refers to Sanballat's and Tobiah's insults. Here the word "heads" refers to the whole people. AT: "Turn their taunts onto themselves" or "Cause their insulting words to mock themselves" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# Do not cover over
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This speaks of a forgiving a person's sins as if they were a object that could be physically hidden. AT: "Do not forgive" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# do not erase their sin from before you
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This speaks of forgetting a person's sins as if they were something written that could be erased. AT: "do not forget their sins
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# they have provoked the builders to anger
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"they have angered the builders"
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# So we built the wall
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"So we rebuilt the wall"
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# all the wall was joined together to half its height
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This can be stated in active form. AT: "we joined the wall together and it was half its total height" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# half its height
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"Half" means one part out of two equal parts. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-fraction]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/turn]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/head]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/prison]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/iniquity]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/sin]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/angry]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/works]] |