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Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting ,
and with sackclothes ,
and earth upon them .
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And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers ,
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 the LORD their God one fourth part of the day ;
and another fourth part they confessed ,
and worshiped the LORD their God .
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Then stood upon the stairs ,
of the Levites ,
Jeshua ,
and Bani ,
Kadmiel ,
Shebaniah ,
Bunni ,
Sherebiah ,
Bani ,
and Chenani ,
and cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God .
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Then the Levites ,
Jeshua ,
and Kadmiel ,
Bani ,
Hashabniah ,
Sherebiah ,
Hodijah ,
Shebaniah ,
and Pethahiah ,
said ,
Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever :
and blessed be thy glorious name ,
which is exalted above all blessing and praise .
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Thou ,
even thou ,
art LORD alone ;
thou hast made heaven ,
the heaven of heavens ,
with all their host ,
the earth ,
and all things that are in it ,
the seas ,
and all that is in them ,
and thou preservest them all ;
and the host of heaven worshipeth thee .
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Thou art the LORD the God ,
who chosest Abram ,
and broughtest him forth from Ur of the Chaldees ,
and gavest him the name of Abraham ;
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And foundest his heart faithful before thee ,
and madest a 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 ,
I say ,
to his seed ,
and hast performed thy words ;
for thou art righteous :
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And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt ,
and heardest their cry by the Red sea ;
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And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh ,
and on all his servants ,
and on all the people of his land :
for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them .
So didst thou get thee a name ,
as it is this day .
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And thou didst divide the sea before them ,
so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land ;
and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps ,
as a stone into the mighty waters .
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Moreover ,
thou leddest 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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Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai ,
and spokest with them from heaven ,
and gavest them right judgments ,
and true laws ,
good statutes and commandments :
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And madest known to them thy holy sabbath ,
and commandedst them precepts ,
statutes ,
and laws ,
by the hand of Moses thy servant :
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And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger ,
and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst ,
and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them .
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But they and our fathers dealt proudly ,
and hardened their necks ,
and hearkened not to thy commandments ,
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And refused to obey ,
neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst perform among them ;
but hardened their necks ,
and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage :
but thou art a God ready to pardon ,
gracious and merciful ,
slow to anger ,
and of great kindness ,
and forsookest them not .
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Yea ,
when they had made them a molten calf ,
and said ,
This is thy God that brought thee out of Egypt ,
and had wrought great provocations ;
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Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness :
the pillar of the cloud departed not from 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 .
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Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them ,
and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth ,
and gavest them water for their thirst .
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Yea ,
forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness ,
so that they lacked nothing ;
their clothes grew not old ,
and their feet swelled not .
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Moreover ,
thou gavest them kingdoms and nations ,
and didst divide them into corners :
so 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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Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven ,
and broughtest them into the land ,
concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers ,
that they should go in to possess it .
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So 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 ,
with their kings ,
and the people of the land ,
that they might do with them as they would .
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And they took strong cities ,
and a fat land ,
and possessed houses full of all goods ,
wells digged ,
vineyards and olive-yards ,
and fruit trees in abundance :
so they ate and were filled ,
and became fat ,
and delighted themselves in thy great goodness .
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Nevertheless ,
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 .
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Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies ,
who distressed them :
and in the time of their trouble ,
when they cried to thee ,
thou hearedest them from heaven ;
and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them deliverers ,
who saved them out of the hand of their enemies .
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But after they had rest ,
they did evil again before thee :
therefore thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies ,
so that they had the dominion over them :
yet when they returned and cried to thee ,
thou hearedest them from heaven ;
and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies ;
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And testifiedst against them ,
that thou mightest bring them again to thy law :
yet they dealt proudly ,
and hearkened not to thy commandments ,
but sinned against thy judgments , (
which if a man doeth ,
he shall live in them :)
and withdrew the shoulder ,
and hardened their neck ,
and would not hear .
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Yet many years didst thou forbear over them ,
and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets :
yet would they not give ear :
therefore thou gavest them into the hand of the people of the lands .
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Nevertheless ,
for thy great mercies '
sake thou didst not utterly consume them ,
nor forsake them ;
for thou art a gracious and merciful God .
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Now therefore ,
our God ,
the great ,
the mighty ,
and the terrible God ,
who keepest covenant and mercy ,
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 time of the kings of Assyria to this day .
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But thou art just in all that is brought upon us ;
for thou hast done right ,
but we have done wickedly :
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Neither have our kings ,
our princes ,
our priests ,
nor our fathers ,
kept thy law ,
nor hearkened to thy commandments and thy testimonies ,
with which thou didst testify against them .
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For they have not served thee in their kingdom ,
and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them ,
and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them ,
neither turned they from their wicked works .
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Behold ,
we are servants this day ,
and for the land that thou gavest 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 yieldeth much increase to the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins :
also they have dominion over our bodies ,
and over our cattle ,
at their pleasure ,
and we are in great distress .