Nehemiah:9:1-37

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* And on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting , and with sackclothes , and earth upon them . * And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners , and stood and confessed their sins , and the iniquities of their fathers . * And they stood up in their place , and read in the book of the law of Jehovah their God a fourth part of the day ; and a fourth part they confessed , and worshipped Jehovah their God . * Then stood up upon the platform of the Levites , Jeshua , and Bani , Kadmiel , Shebaniah , Bunni , Sherebiah , Bani , Chenani , and cried with a loud voice to Jehovah their God . * And the Levites , Jeshua , and Kadmiel , Bani , Hashabniah , Sherebiah , Hodijah , Shebaniah , Pethahiah , said , Stand up , bless Jehovah your God from eternity to eternity . And let [men ] bless the name of thy glory , which is exalted above all blessing and praise . * Thou art the Same , thou alone , Jehovah , who hast made the heaven of heavens , and all their host , the earth and all that is therein , the seas and all that is therein . And thou quickenest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee . * Thou art the Same , Jehovah Elohim , who didst choose Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees , and gavest him the name of Abraham ; * and foundest his heart faithful before thee , and madest the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites , the Hittites , the Amorites , and the Perizzites , and the Jebusites , and the Girgashites , -- to give it to his seed ; and thou hast performed thy words , for thou art righteous . * And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt , and heardest their cry by the Red Sea ; * and didst shew signs and wonders upon Pharaoh , and upon all his servants , and upon all the people of his land ; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them , and thou didst make thee a name , as it is this day . * And thou didst divide the sea before them , and they went through the midst of the sea on dry [ground ]; and their pursuers thou threwest into the depths , as a stone into the mighty waters . * And thou leddest them in the day by a pillar of cloud , and in the night by a pillar of fire , to give them light in the way wherein they should go . * And thou camest down on mount Sinai , and didst speak with them from the heavens , and gavest them right judgments and true laws , good statutes and commandments . * And thou madest known unto them thy holy sabbath , and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law , through Moses thy servant . * And thou gavest them bread from the heavens for their hunger , and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst , and didst say to them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them . * But they , our fathers , dealt proudly , and hardened their neck , and hearkened not to thy commandments , * and refused to obey , neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them ; but hardened their neck , and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage . But thou art a +God ready to forgive , gracious and merciful , slow to anger and of great loving-kindness , and thou forsookest them not . * Yea , when they had made them a molten calf , and said , This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt ! and they had wrought great provocation , * yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness . The pillar of the cloud departed not from over them by day , to lead them on the way ; neither the pillar of fire by night , to shew them light , and the way wherein they should go . * Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them , and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth , and gavest them water for their thirst . * Yea , forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness ; they lacked nothing ; their clothes grew not old , and their feet swelled not . * And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples , and didst divide them by countries ; and they possessed the land of Sihon , as well the land of the king of Heshbon , as the land of Og king of Bashan . * And their children thou didst multiply as the stars of heaven , and thou broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers that they should go in to possess it . * And the children went in and possessed the land ; and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land , the Canaanites , and gavest them into their hands , both their kings and the peoples of the land , that they might do with them as they would . * And they took strong cities , and a fat land , and possessed houses full of all good things , wells digged , vineyards and olive-gardens , and fruit trees in abundance . And they did eat and were filled , and became fat , and delighted themselves in thy great goodness . * But they were disobedient , and rebelled against thee , and cast thy law behind their backs , and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee , and they wrought great provocations . * And thou gavest them into the hand of their oppressors , and they oppressed them ; and in the time of their distress , when they cried unto thee , thou heardest them from the heavens , and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours , who saved them out of the hand of their oppressors . * But when they had rest , they did evil again before thee ; and thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies , and they had dominion over them ; and again they cried unto thee , and thou heardest [them ] from the heavens , and many times didst thou deliver them , according to thy mercies . * And thou testifiedst against them , that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law ; but they dealt proudly , and hearkened not unto thy commandments , but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man do , he shall live in them ); and they withdrew the shoulder , and hardened their neck , and would not hear . * And many years didst thou forbear with them , and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets ; but they would not give ear : and thou gavest them into the hand of the peoples of the lands . * Nevertheless for thy manifold mercies ' sake , thou didst not make a full end of them nor forsake them ; for thou art a gracious and merciful �God . * And now , our God , the great , the mighty , and the terrible �God , who keepest covenant and loving-kindness , let not all the trouble seem little before thee , that hath come upon us , on our kings , on our princes , and on our priests , and on our prophets , and on our fathers , and on all thy people , since the days of the kings of Assyria unto this day . * But thou art just in all that is come upon us ; for thou hast acted according to truth , and we have done wickedly . * And our kings , our princes , our priests , and our fathers , have not performed thy law , nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies , wherewith thou didst testify against them . * And they have not served thee in their kingdom , and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them , and in the large and fat land that thou didst set before them , neither turned they from their wicked works . * Behold , we are servants this day , and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof , behold , we are bondmen in it . * And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins : and they have dominion over our bodies , and over our cattle , at their pleasure ; and we are in great distress .

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