Nehemiah:9:1-37
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And on the twenty fourth day of this month the sons of Israel were gathered with fasting and with sackcloth ,
and with earth on them .
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And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all the sons of aliens ,
and they stood and confessed their sins and the sins of their fathers .
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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 worshiped Jehovah their God .
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Then Jeshua ,
and Bani ,
Kadmiel ,
Shebaniah ,
Bunni ,
Sherebiah ,
Bani and Chenani ,
of the Levites stood on the stairs and cried with a loud voice to Jehovah their God .
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Then the Levites ,
Jeshua ,
and Kadmiel ,
Bani ,
Hashabniah ,
Sherebiah ,
Hodijah ,
Shebaniah ,
and Pethahiah said ,
Stand up !
Bless Jehovah your God forever and ever .
And blessed be the Name of Your Glory ,
even He being exalted above all blessing and praise .
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You alone are He ,
O Jehovah ;
You have made the heavens ,
and heavens of the heavens ,
and all their host ;
the earth and all which is on it ;
the seas ,
and all that is in them ;
and You shall preserve them all alive .
And the host of the heavens bows down to You .
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You are Jehovah the God who chose Abram ,
and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees ,
and appointed his name Abraham .
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And You found his heart faithful before You ,
and cut with him the covenant 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 You have performed Your words ,
for You are righteous .
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And You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt ,
and heard their cry by the Sea of Reeds .
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And You gave signs and wonders on Pharaoh ,
and on all his servants ,
and on all the people of the land .
For You knew that they were seething against them .
And You made a name for Yourself ,
as it is this day .
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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 threw into the deep ,
like a stone into the mighty waters .
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And You led them in the day by a cloudy pillar ,
and in the night by a pillar of fire ,
to give them light in the way in which they should go .
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And You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from the heavens ,
and gave them right judgments and true laws ,
good statutes and commandments .
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And You made Your holy sabbath known to them ,
and You commanded commandments ,
statutes ,
and laws ,
to them by the hand of Your servant Moses .
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And You gave them bread from the heavens for their hunger ,
and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst .
And You said to them that they should go in to possess the land which You had raised Your hand to give them .
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But they and our fathers seethed ,
and hardened their necks ,
and did not listen to Your commands .
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And they refused to obey ,
and were not mindful of Your wonders which You did among them .
But they hardened their necks ,
and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return them to their bondage .
But You are a God ready to pardon ,
gracious and merciful ,
slow to anger ,
and of great kindness ,
and did not forsake them .
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Yea ,
when they had made a casted calf for themselves ,
and said ,
This is your god who brought you up out of Egypt ,
and had worked great blasphemies ,
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Yet You in Your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness .
The pillar of cloud did not depart from them by day to lead them in the way ,
nor the pillar of fire by night ,
to show them light ,
and the way in which they should go .
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You also gave Your good Spirit to teach them ,
and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth ,
and gave them water for their thirst .
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Yea ,
forty years You sustained them in the wilderness .
They lacked nothing ;
their clothes did not wear out ,
and their feet did not swell .
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And You gave them kingdoms and peoples ,
and divided them to corners .
And they possessed the land of Sihon ,
and the land of the king of Heshbon ,
and the land of Og king of Bashan .
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You also multiplied their sons like the stars of the heavens and brought them into the land which You had promised to their fathers ,
that they should go in and possess it .
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And the sons went in and possessed the land ,
and You humbled the people of the land before them ,
the Canaanites .
And You gave them into their hands ,
with their kings and the people of the land to do with them as they desired .
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And they took strong cities and a rich land ,
and occupied houses full of all goods ,
wells already dug ,
vineyards and oliveyards and fruit trees in abundance .
And they ate ,
and were filled ,
and became fat ,
and lived luxuriously in Your great goodness .
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But they were disobedient ,
and rebelled against You ,
and cast Your law behind their backs .
And they killed Your prophets who testified against them ,
to turn them to You .
And they worked great blasphemies .
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And You gave them into the hand of their enemies ,
who distressed them .
And in the time of their distress ,
they cried to You ;
and You heard from Heaven .
And according to Your manifold mercies ,
You gave them deliverers ,
who saved them out of the hand of their enemies .
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But after a rest to them ,
they turned to doing evil before You .
And You left them in the hand of their haters ,
and they ruled over them .
But they came back and cried to You ,
and You heard them from Heaven ,
and You delivered them according to Your mercies .
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And You testified against them to bring them again to Your Law ,
but they seethed ,
and did not listen to Your commands ,
but were against Your judgments ;
they sinned in them ,
which if a man do ,
he shall live in them .
And they gave a rebellious shoulder ,
and hardened their neck ,
and would not hear .
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But many years You had patience with them ,
and testified against them by Your Spirit ,
by Your prophets .
Yet they would not give ear .
And You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands .
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But for Your great mercies ,
You did not consume nor forsake them ;
for You are a gracious and merciful God .
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And now our God ,
the great ,
the mighty and the fearful God ,
keeping the covenant and the mercy ,
let it not seem little before You ,
all the trouble which has found us ,
to our kings ,
to our rulers ,
and to our priests ,
and to our prophets ,
and to our fathers ,
and to all Your people ,
since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day .
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And You are just as to all that came on us ,
for You have done right ;
but we have done evilly .
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And our kings ,
our rulers ,
our priests ,
and our fathers have not kept Your law ,
nor listened to Your commands and Your testimonies with which You testified against them .
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And they have not served You in their kingdom ,
and in Your great goodness which You gave to them ,
and in the large and rich land which You gave before them .
And they did not turn from their evil works .
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Behold ,
we are slaves today ,
even the land that You gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good ,
behold ,
we are slaves in it .
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And it yields much increase to the kings whom You have set over us because of our sinning .
And they rule over our bodies ,
and over our cattle ,
at their pleasure ;
and we are in great distress .
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