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NE-9:1 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.
NE-9:2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all
strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the
iniquities of their fathers.
NE-9:3 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 worshipped the LORD
their God.
NE-9:4 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua,
and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and]
Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
NE-9:5 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.
NE-9:6 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] therein, the seas, and all that [is]
therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven
worshippeth thee.
NE-9:7 Thou [art] the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and
broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him
the name of Abraham;
NE-9:8 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:
NE-9:9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and
heardest their cry by the Red sea;
NE-9:10 And showedst 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.
NE-9:11 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.
NE-9:12 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 wherein they should go.
NE-9:13 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:
NE-9:14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and
commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of
Moses thy servant:
NE-9:15 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.
NE-9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened
their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
NE-9:17 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.
NE-9:18 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;
NE-9:19 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 show them light, and the way wherein they should go.
NE-9:20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and
withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them
water for their thirst.
NE-9:21 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.
NE-9:22 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.
NE-9:23 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].
NE-9:24 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.
NE-9:25 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.
NE-9:26 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.
NE-9:27 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.
NE-9:28 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;
NE-9:29 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.
NE-9:30 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.
NE-9:31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not
utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou [art] a
gracious and merciful God.
NE-9:32 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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