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Nehemiah 9:13-31
New International Version
Nehemiah 9:13-31
New International Version
13 “You came down on Mount Sinai;(A) you spoke(B) to them from heaven.(C) You gave them regulations and laws that are just(D) and right, and decrees and commands that are good.(E) 14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath(F) and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses. 15 In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven(G) and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock;(H) you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand(I) to give them.(J)
16 “But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked,(K) and they did not obey your commands.(L) 17 They refused to listen and failed to remember(M) the miracles(N) you performed among them. They became stiff-necked(O) and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery.(P) But you are a forgiving God,(Q) gracious and compassionate,(R) slow to anger(S) and abounding in love.(T) Therefore you did not desert them,(U) 18 even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf(V) and said, ‘This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,’ or when they committed awful blasphemies.(W)
19 “Because of your great compassion you did not abandon(X) them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud(Y) did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take. 20 You gave your good Spirit(Z) to instruct(AA) them. You did not withhold your manna(AB) from their mouths, and you gave them water(AC) for their thirst. 21 For forty years(AD) you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing,(AE) their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.(AF)
22 “You gave them kingdoms and nations, allotting to them even the remotest frontiers. They took over the country of Sihon[a](AG) king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan.(AH) 23 You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky,(AI) and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess. 24 Their children went in and took possession of the land.(AJ) You subdued(AK) before them the Canaanites, who lived in the land; you gave the Canaanites into their hands, along with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with them as they pleased. 25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land;(AL) they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things,(AM) wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished;(AN) they reveled in your great goodness.(AO)
26 “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law.(AP) They killed(AQ) your prophets,(AR) who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.(AS) 27 So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies,(AT) who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion(AU) you gave them deliverers,(AV) who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.
28 “But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight.(AW) Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion(AX) you delivered them(AY) time after time.
29 “You warned(AZ) them in order to turn them back to your law, but they became arrogant(BA) and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, of which you said, ‘The person who obeys them will live by them.’(BB) Stubbornly they turned their backs(BC) on you, became stiff-necked(BD) and refused to listen.(BE) 30 For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets.(BF) Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.(BG) 31 But in your great mercy you did not put an end(BH) to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful(BI) God.
Footnotes
- Nehemiah 9:22 One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts Sihon, that is, the country of the
Nehemiah 9:13-31
King James Version
Nehemiah 9:13-31
King James Version
13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
15 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.
16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst 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.
18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
19 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 shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
22 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.
23 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.
24 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.
25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
26 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.
27 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.
28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the land 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;
29 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.
30 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.
31 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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