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Nehemiah 9:1 (NRSV) New Revised Standard Version

1 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads.
2 Then those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.
3 They stood up in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God for a fourth part of the day, and for another fourth they made confession and worshiped the LORD their God.
4 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.
5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, "Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise."
6 And Ezra said: "You are the LORD, you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. To all of them you give life, and the host of heaven worships you.
7 You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham;
8 and you found his heart faithful before you, and made with him a covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite; and you have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.
9 "And you saw the distress of our ancestors in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.
10 You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted insolently against our ancestors. You made a name for yourself, which remains to this day.
11 And you divided the sea before them, so that they passed through the sea on dry land, but you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters.
12 Moreover, you led them by day with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light on the way in which they should go.
13 You came down also upon Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
14 and you made known your holy sabbath to them and gave them commandments and statutes and a law through your servant Moses.
15 For their hunger you gave them bread from heaven, and for their thirst you brought water for them out of the rock, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you swore to give them.
16 "But they and our ancestors acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks and did not obey your commandments;
17 they refused to obey, and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them; but they stiffened their necks and determined to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and you did not forsake them.
18 Even when they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, 'This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,' and had committed great blasphemies,
19 you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud that led them in the way did not leave them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night that gave them light on the way by which they should go.
20 You gave your good spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and gave them water for their thirst.
21 Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
22 And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, and allotted to them every corner, so they took possession of the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.
23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess.
24 So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, to do with them as they pleased.
25 And they captured fortress cities and a rich land, and took possession of houses filled with all sorts of goods, hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive orchards, and fruit trees in abundance; so they ate, and were filled and became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
26 "Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their backs and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.
27 Therefore you gave them into the hands of their enemies, who made them suffer. Then in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hands of their enemies.
28 But after they had rest, they again did evil before you, and you abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them; yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you rescued them according to your mercies.
29 And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, by the observance of which a person shall live. They turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
30 Many years you were patient with them, and warned them by your spirit through your prophets; yet they would not listen. Therefore you handed them over to the peoples of the lands.
31 Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
32 "Now therefore, our God-- the great and mighty and awesome God, keeping covenant and steadfast love-- do not treat lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, upon our kings, our officials, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until today.
33 You have been just in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly;
34 our kings, our officials, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law or heeded the commandments and the warnings that you gave them.
35 Even in their own kingdom, and in the great goodness you bestowed on them, and in the large and rich land that you set before them, they did not serve you and did not turn from their wicked works.
36 Here we are, slaves to this day-- slaves in the land that you gave to our ancestors to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts.
37 Its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins; they have power also over our bodies and over our livestock at their pleasure, and we are in great distress."
38 Because of all this we make a firm agreement in writing, and on that sealed document are inscribed the names of our officials, our Levites, and our priests.
1 Now in the twenty H6242 and fourth H702 day H3117 of this H2088 D-PMS month H2320 LD-NMS the children H1121 of Israel H3478 were assembled H622 with fasting H6685 , and with sackclothes H8242 , and earth H127 upon H5921 PREP-3MP them .
2 And the seed H2233 NMS of Israel H3478 separated themselves H914 from all H3605 M-CMS strangers H1121 , and stood H5975 and confessed H3034 their sins H2403 , and the iniquities H5771 of their fathers H1 .
3 And they stood up H6965 in H5921 PREP their place H5977 , and read H7121 in the book H5612 of the law H8451 CFS of the LORD H3068 EDS their God H430 one fourth H7243 part of the day H3117 D-AMS ; and another fourth H7243 part they confessed H3034 , and worshiped H7812 the LORD H3068 L-EDS their God H430 .
4 Then stood up H6965 W-VQY3MS upon H5921 PREP the stairs H4608 , of the Levites H3881 , Jeshua H3442 , and Bani H1137 , Kadmiel H6934 , Shebaniah H7645 , Bunni H1138 , Sherebiah H8274 , Bani H1137 , and Chenani H3662 , and cried H2199 W-VQY3MP with a loud H1419 AMS voice H6963 B-NMS unto H413 PREP the LORD H3068 EDS their God H430 .
5 Then the Levites H3881 , Jeshua H3442 , and Kadmiel H6934 , Bani H1137 , Hashabniah H2813 , Sherebiah H8274 , Hodijah H1941 , Shebaniah H7645 , and Pethahiah H6611 , said H559 W-VQY3MP , Stand up H6965 and bless H1288 the LORD H3068 EDS your God H430 forever H5769 and H5704 PREP ever H5769 : and blessed H1288 be thy glorious H3519 name H8034 CMS , which is exalted H7311 above H5921 PREP all H3605 NMS blessing H1293 and praise H8416 .
6 Thou H859 PPRO-2MS , even thou H1931 PPRO-3MS , art LORD H3068 EDS alone H905 ; thou H859 PPRO-2FS hast made H6213 VQQ2MS heaven H8064 D-NMD , the heaven H8064 of heavens H8064 D-NMD , with all H3605 W-CMS their host H6635 , the earth H776 D-GFS , and all H3605 W-CMS things that H834 RPRO are therein H5921 PREP-3FS , the seas H3220 , and all H3605 W-CMS that H834 RPRO is therein , and thou H859 PPRO-2MS preservest H2421 them all H3605 CMS-3MP ; and the host H6635 of heaven H8064 D-NMD worshipeth H7812 thee .
7 Thou H859 PPRO-2MS art the LORD H3068 EDS the God H430 D-EDP , who H834 RPRO didst choose H977 VQQ2MS Abram H87 , and broughtest him forth H3318 out of Ur H218 M-EFS of the Chaldees H3778 TMP , and gavest H7760 him the name H8034 of Abraham H85 ;
8 And foundest H4672 his heart H3824 faithful H539 before H6440 L-CMP-2MS thee , and madest H3772 a covenant H1285 D-NFS with H5973 PREP-3MS him to give H5414 L-VQFC the land H776 GFS of the Canaanites H3669 , the Hittites H2850 , the Amorites H567 D-TMS , and the Perizzites H6522 WD-EMS , and the Jebusites H2983 , and the Girgashites H1622 , to give H5414 L-VQFC it , I say , to his seed H2233 , and hast performed H6965 thy words H1697 ; for H3588 CONJ thou H859 PPRO-2MS art righteous H6662 AMS :
9 And didst see H7200 W-VQQ3FS the affliction H6040 of our fathers H1 in Egypt H4714 , and heardest H8085 VQQ2MS their cry H2201 by H5921 PREP the Red H5488 sea H3220 ;
10 And showedst H5414 W-VQY3FS signs H226 and wonders H4159 upon Pharaoh H6547 , and on all H3605 WB-CMS his servants H5650 , and on all H3605 WB-CMS the people H5971 NMS of his land H776 : for H3588 CONJ thou knewest H3045 VQQ2MS that H3588 CONJ they dealt proudly H2102 against H5921 PREP-3MP them . So didst thou get H6213 thee a name H8034 CMS , as it is this H2088 D-PMS day H3117 .
11 And thou didst divide H1234 the sea H3220 before H6440 L-CMP-3MP them , so that they went through H5674 the midst H8432 of the sea H3220 D-NMS on the dry land H3004 ; and their persecutors H7291 thou threwest H7993 into the deeps H4688 , as H3644 PREP a stone H68 GFS into the mighty H5794 waters H4325 .
12 Moreover thou leddest H5148 them in the day H3119 ADV by a cloudy H6051 NMS pillar H5982 ; and in the night H3915 GMS by a pillar H5982 of fire H784 CMS , to give them light H215 L-VHFC in the way H1870 D-NMS wherein H834 RPRO they should go H1980 .
13 Thou camest down H3381 also upon H5921 W-PREP mount H2022 CMS Sinai H5514 , and spakest H1696 with H5973 PREP-3MP them from heaven H8064 , and gavest H5414 W-VQY3FS them right H3477 AMP judgments H4941 , and true H571 CFS laws H8451 , good H2896 statutes H2706 and commandments H4687 :
14 And madest known H3045 unto them thy holy H6944 sabbath H7676 , and commandedst H6680 VPQ2MS them precepts H4687 , statutes H2706 , and laws H8451 , by the hand H3027 B-CFS of Moses H4872 thy servant H5650 :
15 And gavest H5414 VQQ2MS-2FS them bread H3899 from heaven H8064 for their hunger H7458 , and broughtest forth H3318 water H4325 W-NMD for them out of the rock H5553 for their thirst H6772 , and promisedst H559 W-VQY3FS them that they should go in H935 L-VQFC to possess H3423 the land H776 D-GFS which H834 RPRO thou hadst sworn H5375 to give H5414 L-VQFC them .
16 But they H1992 W-PPRO-3MP and our fathers H1 dealt proudly H2102 , and hardened H7185 their necks H6203 , and hearkened H8085 VQQ3MP not H3808 W-NPAR to H413 PREP thy commandments H4687 ,
17 And refused H3985 to obey H8085 , neither H3808 W-NPAR were mindful H2142 of thy wonders H6381 that H834 RPRO thou didst H6213 VQQ2MS among H5973 PREP-3MP them ; but hardened H7185 their necks H6203 , and in their rebellion H4805 appointed H5414 W-VQY3MP a captain H7218 NMS to return H7725 to their bondage H5659 : but thou H859 W-PPRO-2MS art a God H433 NAME-4MS ready to pardon H5547 , gracious H2587 AMS and merciful H7349 W-AMS , slow H750 to anger H639 NMD , and of great H7227 W-JMS kindness H2617 , and forsookest H5800 them not H3808 W-NPAR .
18 Yea H637 CONJ , when H3588 CONJ they had made H6213 VQQ3MP them a molten H4541 calf H5695 , and said H559 W-VQY3MP , This H2088 DPRO is thy God H430 CMP-2MS that H834 RPRO brought thee up H5927 out of Egypt H4714 , and had wrought H6213 great H1419 provocations H5007 ;
19 Yet thou H859 W-PPRO-2MS in thy manifold H7227 mercies H7356 forsookest H5800 them not H3808 NADV in the wilderness H4057 : the pillar H5982 of the cloud H6051 departed H5493 not H3808 NADV from them by day H3119 , to lead H5148 them in the way H1870 ; neither the pillar H5982 of fire H784 by night H3915 , to show them light H215 L-VHFC , and the way H1870 D-NMS wherein H834 RPRO they should go H1980 .
20 Thou gavest H5414 also thy good H2896 spirit H7307 to instruct H7919 them , and withheldest H4513 not H3808 NADV thy manna H4478 from their mouth H6310 M-CMS-3MP , and gavest H5414 VQQ2MS-2FS them water H4325 W-NMD for their thirst H6772 .
21 Yea , forty H705 W-MMP years H8141 NFS didst thou sustain H3557 them in the wilderness H4057 , so that they lacked H2637 nothing H3808 NADV ; their clothes H8008 waxed not old H1086 , and their feet H7272 swelled H1216 not H3808 NADV .
22 Moreover thou gavest H5414 W-VQY3FS them kingdoms H4467 and nations H5971 , and didst divide H2505 them into corners H6285 : so they possessed H3423 the land H776 GFS of Sihon H5511 , and the land H776 GFS of the king H4428 NMS of Heshbon H2809 , and the land H776 GFS of Og H5747 king H4428 NMS of Bashan H1316 .
23 Their children H1121 also multipliedst H7235 thou as the stars H3556 of heaven H8064 D-AMP , and broughtest H935 them into H413 PREP the land H776 D-GFS , concerning which H834 RPRO thou hadst promised H559 VQQ2MS to their fathers H1 , that they should go in H935 L-VQFC to possess H3423 it .
24 So the children H1121 went in H935 W-VQY3MP and possessed H3423 the land H776 D-GFS , and thou subduedst H3665 before H6440 L-CMP-3MP them the inhabitants H3427 of the land H776 D-GFS , the Canaanites H3669 , and gavest H5414 them into their hands H3027 , with their kings H4428 , and the people H5971 of the land H776 D-GFS , that they might do H6213 L-VQFC with them as they would H7522 .
25 And they took H3920 strong H1219 cities H5892 GFP , and a fat H8082 land H127 , and possessed H3423 houses H1004 NMP full H4392 of all H3605 NMS goods H2898 , wells H953 digged H2672 , vineyards H3754 , and oliveyards H2132 , and fruit H3978 trees H6086 W-NMS in abundance H7230 LD-NMS : so they did eat H398 W-VQY3MP , and were filled H7646 , and became fat H8080 , and delighted themselves H5727 in thy great H1419 D-AMS goodness H2898 .
26 Nevertheless they were disobedient H4784 , and rebelled H4775 against thee , and cast H7993 thy law H8451 behind H310 PREP their backs H1458 , and slew H2026 thy prophets H5030 which H834 RPRO testified H5749 against them to turn H7725 them to H413 PREP-2MS thee , and they wrought H6213 great H1419 provocations H5007 .
27 Therefore thou deliveredst H5414 them into the hand H3027 B-CFS of their enemies H6862 , who vexed H6887 them : and in the time H6256 of their trouble H6869 , when they cried H6817 VQY3MP unto H413 PREP-2MS thee , thou H859 W-PPRO-2MS heardest H8085 VQY2MS them from heaven H8064 ; and according to thy manifold H7227 mercies H7356 thou gavest H5414 VQY2MS them saviors H3467 , who saved H3467 them out of the hand H3027 M-GFS of their enemies H6862 .
28 But after they had rest H5117 , they did H6213 L-VQFC evil H7451 AMS again H7725 before H6440 L-CMP-2MS thee : therefore leftest H5800 thou them in the hand H3027 B-CFS of their enemies H341 , so that they had the dominion H7287 over them : yet when they returned H7725 , and cried H2199 unto thee , thou H859 W-PPRO-2MS heardest H8085 them from heaven H8064 ; and many H7227 AFP times H6256 didst thou deliver H5337 them according to thy mercies H7356 ;
29 And testifiedst H5749 against them , that thou mightest bring them again H7725 unto H413 PREP thy law H8451 : yet they H1992 dealt proudly H2102 , and hearkened H8085 VQQ3MP not H3808 W-NPAR unto thy commandments H4687 , but sinned H2398 VQQ3MP against thy judgments H4941 , ( RPRO which H834 RPRO if a man H120 NMS do H6213 VQY3MS , he shall live H2421 in them ; ) and withdrew H5414 W-VQY3MP the shoulder H3802 , and hardened H7185 their neck H6203 , and would not H3808 W-NPAR hear H8085 VQQ3MP .
30 Yet many H7227 AFP years H8141 NFP didst thou forbear H4900 them , and testifiedst H5749 against them by thy spirit H7307 in H3027 B-CFS thy prophets H5030 : yet would they not H3808 W-NPAR give ear H238 : therefore gavest H5414 thou them into the hand H3027 B-CFS of the people H5971 of the lands H776 .
31 Nevertheless for thy great H7227 mercies\'s H7356 ake H7356 thou H7356 didst H7356 not H3808 ADV utterly consume H3617 them , nor H3808 W-NADV forsake H5800 them ; for H3588 CONJ thou H859 PPRO-2MS art a gracious H2587 AMS and merciful H7349 W-AMS God H410 NMS .
32 Now H6258 W-ADV therefore , our God H430 , the great H1419 D-AMS , the mighty H1368 , and the terrible H3372 God H410 , who keepest H8104 covenant H1285 D-NFS and mercy H2617 , let not H408 NPAR all H3605 NMS the trouble H8513 seem little H4591 before H6440 L-CMP-2MS thee , that H834 hath come upon H4672 us , on our kings H4428 , on our princes H8269 , and on our priests H3548 , and on our prophets H5030 , and on our fathers H1 , and on all H3605 NMS thy people H5971 , since the time H3117 of the kings H4428 CMP of Assyria H804 GFS unto H5704 PREP this H2088 D-PMS day H3117 D-AMS .
33 Howbeit thou H859 W-PPRO-2MS art just H6662 AMS in H5921 PREP all H3605 NMS that is brought H935 upon H5921 PREP us ; for H3588 CONJ thou hast done H6213 VQQ2MS right H571 CFS , but we H587 have done wickedly H7561 :
34 Neither have our kings H4428 , our princes H8269 , our priests H3548 , nor H3808 NADV our fathers H1 , kept H6213 VQQ3MP thy law H8451 , nor H3808 W-NADV hearkened H7181 unto H413 PREP thy commandments H4687 and thy testimonies H5715 , wherewith H834 RPRO thou didst testify H5749 against them .
35 For they H1992 W-PPRO-3MP have not H3808 NADV served H5647 thee in their kingdom H4438 , and in thy great H7227 goodness H2898 that H834 RPRO thou gavest H5414 them , and in the large H7342 and fat H8082 land H776 which H834 RPRO thou gavest H5414 before H6440 L-CMP-3MP them , neither H3808 NADV turned H7725 VQQ3MP they from their wicked H7451 works H4611 .
36 Behold H2009 IJEC , we H587 PPRO-1MP are servants H5650 NMP this day H3117 D-AMS , and for the land H776 WD-GFS that H834 RPRO thou gavest H5414 VQQ2MS-2FS unto our fathers H1 to eat H398 L-VQFC the fruit H6529 thereof and the good H2898 thereof , behold H2009 IJEC , we H587 PPRO-1MP are servants H5650 NMP in H5921 it :
37 And it yieldeth much H7235 increase H8393 unto the kings H4428 whom H834 RPRO thou hast set H5414 VQQ2MS-2FS over H5921 PREP-1MP us because of our sins H2403 : also they have dominion H4910 over H5921 W-PREP our bodies H1472 , and over our cattle H929 , at their pleasure H7522 , and we H587 PPRO-1MP are in great H1419 AFS distress H6869 .
38 And because of all H3605 WB-CMS this H2063 DPRO we H587 PPRO-1MP make H3772 a sure H548 covenant , and write H3789 it ; and our princes H8269 , Levites H3881 , and priests H3548 , seal H2856 unto it .
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