Nehemiah:9:26-36
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Nevertheless they were disobedient ,
and rebelled against thee ,
and cast thy law behind their backs ,
and slew thy prophets which 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 vexed them :
and in the time of their trouble ,
when they cried unto thee ,
thou heardest them from heaven ;
and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours ,
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 leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies ,
so that they had the dominion over them :
yet when they returned ,
and cried unto thee ,
thou heardest 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 unto thy law :
yet they dealt proudly ,
and hearkened not unto thy commandments ,
but sinned against thy judgments , (
which if a man do ,
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 them ,
and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets :
yet would they not give ear :
therefore gavest thou 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 unto this day .
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Howbeit 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 unto thy commandments and thy testimonies ,
wherewith 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 unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof ,
behold ,
we are servants in it :