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Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel were assembled with fasting ,
and with sackcloth ,
and earth upon them .
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And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners ,
and stood and confessed their sins ,
and the iniquities of their fathers .
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And they stood up in their place ,
and read in the book of the law of LORD their God a fourth part of the day ,
and [
another ]
fourth part they confessed ,
and worshipped LORD their God .
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Then Jeshua ,
and Bani ,
Kadmiel ,
Shebaniah ,
Bunni ,
Sherebiah ,
Bani , [
and ]
Chenani ,
stood up upon the stairs of the Levites ,
and cried with a loud voice to LORD their God .
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Then the Levites ,
Jeshua ,
and Kadmiel ,
Bani ,
Hashabneiah ,
Sherebiah ,
Hodiah ,
Shebaniah , [
and ]
Pethahiah ,
said ,
Stand up and bless LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting .
And blessed be thy glorious name ,
which is exalted abo
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Thou are LORD ,
even thou alone ,
thou 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 thou preserve them all .
And the host of heaven worshi
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Thou are LORD ,
the God who chose Abram ,
and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees ,
and gave him the name of Abraham ,
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and found his heart faithful before thee ,
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
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And thou saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt ,
and heard their cry by the Red Sea ,
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and showed signs and wonders upon Pharaoh ,
and on all his servants ,
and on all the people of his land ,
for thou knew that they dealt proudly against them ,
and got thee a name ,
as it is this day .
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And thou divided the sea before them ,
so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land .
And thou cast their pursuers into the depths as a stone into the mighty waters .
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Moreover in a pillar of cloud thou led them by day ,
and in a pillar of fire by night ,
to give them light in the way in which they should go .
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Thou also came down upon mount Sinai ,
and spoke with them from heaven ,
and gave them right ordinances and TRUE laws ,
good statutes and commandments ,
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and made known to them thy holy Sabbath ,
and commanded them commandments ,
and statutes ,
and a law ,
by Moses thy servant .
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And thou 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 thou had sworn to give them .
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But they and our fathers dealt proudly and stiffened their neck ,
and did not hearken to thy commandments ,
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and refused to obey ,
neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou did among them ,
but stiffened their neck .
And in their rebellion they appointed a captain to return to their bondage .
But thou are a God ready to pardon ,
gracious a
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Yea ,
when they had made a molten calf for them ,
and said ,
This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt ,
and had wrought great provocations ,
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yet thou in thy 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
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Thou also gave thy good Spirit to instruct them ,
and did not withhold thy manna from their mouth ,
and gave them water for their thirst .
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Yea ,
forty years thou sustained them in the wilderness , [
and ]
they lacked nothing ;
their clothes did not grow old ,
and their feet did not swell .
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Moreover thou gave them kingdoms and peoples ,
which thou 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 .
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Their sons thou also multiplied as the stars of heaven ,
and brought them into the land concerning which thou said to their fathers that they should go in to possess it .
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So the sons went in and possessed the land .
And thou subdued the inhabitants of the land before them ,
the Canaanites ,
and gave them into their hands ,
with their kings ,
and the peoples of the land ,
that they might do with them as th
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And they took fortified cities ,
and a fat land ,
and possessed houses full of all good things ,
cisterns hewn out ,
vineyards ,
and oliveyards ,
and fruit trees in abundance .
So they ate ,
and were filled ,
and became fat ,
and delighted t
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Nevertheless they were disobedient ,
and rebelled against thee ,
and cast thy law behind their back ,
and killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them again to thee ,
and they wrought great provocations .
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Therefore thou delivered them into the hand of their adversaries ,
who distressed them .
And in the time of their trouble ,
when they cried to thee ,
thou heard from heaven ,
and according to thy manifold mercies thou gave them saviors
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But after they had rest ,
they again did evil before thee .
Therefore thou left them in the hand of their enemies ,
so that they had the dominion over them .
Yet when they returned ,
and cried to thee ,
thou heard from heaven ,
and many t
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and testified against them ,
that thou might bring them again to thy law .
Yet they dealt proudly ,
and did not hearken to thy commandments ,
but sinned against thine ordinances (
which if a man does ,
he shall live in them ),
and withdre
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Yet many years thou bore with them ,
and testified against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets .
Yet they would not give ear .
Therefore thou gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands .
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Nevertheless in thy manifold mercies thou did not make a full end of them ,
nor forsake them ,
for thou are a gracious and merciful God .
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Now therefore ,
our God ,
the great ,
the mighty ,
and the awesome God ,
who keeps covenant and loving kindness ,
let not all the travail seem little before thee ,
that has come upon us ,
on our kings ,
on our rulers ,
and on our priests ,
an
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However thou are just in all that has come upon us ,
for thou have dealt truly ,
but we have done wickedly ,
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neither have our kings ,
our rulers ,
our priests ,
nor our fathers ,
kept thy law ,
nor hearkened to thy commandments and thy testimonies with which thou testified against them .
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For they have not served thee in their kingdom ,
and in thy great goodness that thou gave them ,
and in the large and fat land which thou gave before them ,
neither did they turn from their wicked works .
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Behold ,
we are servants this day ,
and as for the land that thou gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it ,
behold ,
we are servants in it .
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And it yields much increase to the kings whom thou 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 .