nkjv Nehemiah:9:1-37 SEEK
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Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting ,
in sackcloth ,
and with dust on their heads .
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Then those of Israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners ;
and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers .
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And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for one-fourth of the day ;
and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God .
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Then Jeshua ,
Bani ,
Kadmiel ,
Shebaniah ,
Bunni ,
Sherebiah ,
Bani ,
and Chenani stood on the stairs of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to the LORD their God .
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And the Levites ,
Jeshua ,
Kadmiel ,
Bani ,
Hashabniah ,
Sherebiah ,
Hodijah ,
Shebaniah ,
and Pethahiah ,
said : "
Stand up and bless the LORD your God Forever and ever ! "
Blessed be Your glorious name ,
Which is exalted above all blessing and praise !
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You alone are the LORD ;
You have made heaven ,
The heaven of heavens ,
with all their host ,
The earth and everything on it ,
The seas and all that is in them ,
And You preserve them all .
The host of heaven worships You .
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You are the LORD God ,
Who chose Abram ,
And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans ,
And gave him the name Abraham ;
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You found his heart faithful before You ,
And made a covenant with him To give the land of the Canaanites ,
The Hittites ,
the Amorites ,
The Perizzites ,
the Jebusites ,
And the Girgashites --
To give it to his descendants .
You have performed Your words ,
For You are righteous .
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You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt ,
And heard their cry by the Red Sea .
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You showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh ,
Against all his servants ,
And against all the people of his land .
For You knew that they acted proudly against them .
So 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 persecutors You threw into the deep ,
As a stone into the mighty waters .
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Moreover You led them by day with a cloudy pillar ,
And by night with a pillar of fire ,
To give them light on the road Which they should travel .
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You came down also on Mount Sinai ,
And spoke with them from heaven ,
And gave them just ordinances and true laws ,
Good statutes and commandments .
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You made known to them Your holy Sabbath ,
And commanded them precepts ,
statutes and laws ,
By the hand of Moses Your servant .
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You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger ,
And brought them water out of the rock for their thirst ,
And told them to go in to possess the land Which You had sworn to give them .
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But they and our fathers acted proudly ,
Hardened their necks ,
And did not heed Your commandments .
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They refused to obey ,
And they were not mindful of Your wonders That You did among them .
But they hardened their necks ,
And in their rebellion They appointed a leader To return to their bondage .
But You are God ,
Ready to pardon ,
Gracious and merciful ,
Slow to anger ,
Abundant in kindness ,
And did not forsake them .
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Even when they made a molded calf for themselves ,
And said , "
This is your god That brought you up out of Egypt ,'
And worked great provocations ,
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Yet in Your manifold mercies You did not forsake them in the wilderness .
The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day ,
To lead them on the road ;
Nor the pillar of fire by night ,
To show them light ,
And the way they should go .
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You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them ,
And did not withhold Your manna from their mouth ,
And gave them water for their thirst .
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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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Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations ,
And divided them into districts .
So they took possession of the land of Sihon ,
The land of the king of Heshbon ,
And the land of Og king of Bashan .
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You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven ,
And brought them into the land Which You had told their fathers To go in and possess .
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So the people went in And possessed the land ;
You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land ,
The Canaanites ,
And gave them into their hands ,
With their kings And the people of the land ,
That they might do with them as they wished .
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And they took strong cities and a rich land ,
And possessed houses full of all goods ,
Cisterns already dug ,
vineyards ,
olive groves ,
And fruit trees in abundance .
So they ate and were filled and grew fat ,
And delighted themselves in Your great goodness .
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Nevertheless they were disobedient And rebelled against You ,
Cast Your law behind their backs And killed Your prophets ,
who testified against them To turn them to Yourself ;
And they worked great provocations .
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Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies ,
Who oppressed them ;
And in the time of their trouble ,
When they cried to You ,
You heard from heaven ;
And according to Your abundant mercies You gave them deliverers who saved them From the hand of their enemies .
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But after they had rest ,
They again did evil before You .
Therefore You left them in the hand of their enemies ,
So that they had dominion over them ;
Yet when they returned and cried out to You ,
You heard from heaven ;
And many times You delivered them according to Your mercies ,
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And testified against them ,
That You might bring them back to Your law .
Yet they acted proudly ,
And did not heed Your commandments ,
But sinned against Your judgments , "
Which if a man does ,
he shall live by them .'
And they shrugged their shoulders ,
Stiffened their necks ,
And would not hear .
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Yet for many years You had patience with them ,
And testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets .
Yet they would not listen ;
Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands .
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Nevertheless in Your great mercy You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them ;
For You are God ,
gracious and merciful .
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Now therefore ,
our God ,
The great ,
the mighty ,
and awesome God ,
Who keeps covenant and mercy :
Do not let all the trouble seem small before You That has come upon us ,
Our kings and our princes ,
Our priests and our prophets ,
Our fathers and on all Your people ,
From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day .
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However You are just in all that has befallen us ;
For You have dealt faithfully ,
But we have done wickedly .
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Neither our kings nor our princes ,
Our priests nor our fathers ,
Have kept Your law ,
Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies ,
With which You testified against them .
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For they have not served You in their kingdom ,
Or in the many good things that You gave them ,
Or in the large and rich land which You set before them ;
Nor did they turn from their wicked works .
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Here we are ,
servants today !
And the land that You gave to our fathers ,
To eat its fruit and its bounty ,
Here we are ,
servants in it !
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And it yields much increase to the kings You have set over us ,
Because of our sins ;
Also they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle At their pleasure ;
And we are in great distress .