Nehemiah:9

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* Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the sons of Israel were assembled with fasting , and with sackcloth , and earth on 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 Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day ; and [another ] fourth part they confessed , and worshiped Yahweh their God . * Then stood up on the stairs of the Levites , Jeshua , and Bani , Kadmiel , Shebaniah , Bunni , Sherebiah , Bani , [and ] Chenani , and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God . * Then the Levites , Jeshua , and Kadmiel , Bani , Hashabneiah , Sherebiah , Hodiah , Shebaniah , [and ] Pethahiah , said , Stand up and bless Yahweh your (note :){+}(:note ) God from everlasting to everlasting ; and let them bless your glorious name , which is exalted above all blessing and praise . * You are Yahweh , even you alone ; you have made heaven , the heaven of heavens , with all their host , the earth and all things that are on it , the seas and all that is in them , and you preserve them all ; and the host of heaven worships you . * You are Yahweh the God , who chose Abram , and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees , and gave him the name of Abraham , * and found his heart faithful before you , and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite , the Hittite , the Amorite , and the Perizzite , and the Jebusite , and the Girgashite , to give it to his seed , and have performed your words ; for you are righteous . * And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt , and heard their cry by the Red Sea , * and showed signs and wonders on Pharaoh , and on all his slaves , and on all the people of his land ; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them , and you made a name for yourself , as it is this day . * And you divided the sea before them , so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land ; and their pursuers you cast into the depths , as a stone into the mighty waters . * Moreover in a pillar of cloud you led them by day ; and in a pillar of fire by night , to give them light in the way in which they should go . * You came down also on mount Sinai , and spoke with them from heaven , and gave them right ordinances and true laws , good statutes and commandments , * and made known to them your holy Sabbath , and commanded them commandments , and statutes , and a law , by Moses your slave , * and gave them bread from heaven for their hunger , and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst , and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them . * But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck , and didn 't listen to your commandments , * and refused to obey , neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them , but hardened their neck , and in Egypt appointed a captain to return to their slavery . But you are a God ready to pardon , gracious and merciful , slow to anger , and abundant in loving-kindness , and did not forsake them . * Yes , when they had made themselves a molten calf , and said , This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt , and had wrought great provocations ; * yet you in your manifold mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness : the pillar of cloud did not depart from over them by day , to lead them in the way ; neither the pillar of fire by night , to show them light , and the way in which they should go . * You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them , and didn 't withhold your manna from their mouth , and gave them water for their thirst . * Yes , forty years you sustained them in the wilderness , [and ] they lacked nothing ; their clothes didn 't wax old , and their feet didn 't swell . * Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples , which you allotted after their portions : so they possessed the land of Sihon , even the land of the king of Heshbon , and the land of Og king of Bashan . * You also multiplied their sons as the stars of heaven , and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers , that they should go in to possess it . * So the sons went in and possessed the land , and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land , the Canaanites , and gave them into their hands , with their kings , and the peoples of the land , that they might do with them as they would . * And they took fortified cities , and a fat land , and possessed houses full of all good things , cisterns cut out , vineyards , and oliveyards , and fruit-trees in abundance : so they ate , and were filled , and became fat , and delighted themselves in your great goodness . * Nevertheless they were disobedient , and rebelled against you , and cast your law behind their back , and slew your prophets that testified against them to turn themselves again to you , and they wrought great provocations . * Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries , who distressed them : and in the time of their trouble , when they cried to you , you heard from heaven ; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries . * But after they had rest , they did evil again before you ; therefore you left them in the hand of their enemies , so that they had the dominion over them : yet when they returned , and cried to you , you heard from heaven ; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies , * and testified against them , that you might bring them again to your law . Yet they dealt proudly , and didn 't listen to your commandments , but sinned against your ordinances , which if man does , he will live in them , and withdrew the shoulder , and hardened their neck , and would not hear . * Yet many years you bore with them , and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets : yet they would not give ear : therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands . * Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them , nor forsake them ; for you are a gracious and merciful God . * Now therefore , our God , the great , the mighty , and the awesome God , who keeps covenant and loving-kindness , don 't let all the travail seem little before you , that has come upon us , on our kings , on our princes , and on our priests , and on our prophets , and on our fathers , and on all your people , since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day . * Nevertheless you are just in all that has come upon us ; for you have dealt truly , but we have done wickedly ; * neither have our kings , our princes , our priests , nor our fathers , kept your law , nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them . * For they have not served you in their kingdom , and in your great goodness that you gave them , and in the large and fat land which you gave before them , neither did they turn from their wicked works . * Look , we are slaves this day , and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it , see , we are slaves in it . * And it yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins : also they have power over our bodies , and over our cattle , at their pleasure , and we are in great distress . * And yet for all this we make a sure covenant , and write it ; and our princes , our Levites , [and ] our priests , seal to it .

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