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May your glorious name be blessed; may it be lifted up above all blessing and praise. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You alone are the <span class="smallcaps">LORD</span>. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, along with all their multitude of stars, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You impart life to them all, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“You are the <span class="smallcaps">LORD</span> God who chose Abram and brought him forth from Ur of the Chaldeans. You changed his name to Abraham. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When you perceived that his heart was faithful toward you, you established a covenant with him to give his descendants the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites. You have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“You saw the affliction of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their cry at the Red Sea. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You performed awesome signs against Pharaoh, against his servants, and against all the people of his land, for you knew that the Egyptians had acted presumptuously against them. You made for yourself a name that is celebrated to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You split the sea before them, and they crossed through the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into surging waters. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You made known to them your holy Sabbath; you issued commandments, statutes, and law to them through Moses your servant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“But they – our ancestors – behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Due to your great compassion you did not abandon them in the desert. The pillar of cloud did not stop guiding them in the path by day, nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For forty years you sustained them. Even in the desert they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and you allocated them to every corner of the land. They inherited the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things – wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from their adversaries.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“Then, when they were at rest again, they went back to doing evil before you. Then you abandoned them to their enemies, and they gained dominion over them. When they again cried out to you, in your compassion you heard from heaven and rescued them time and again. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances – those by which an individual, if he obeys them, will live. They boldly turned from you; they rebelled and did not obey. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>However, due to your abundant mercy you did not do away with them altogether; you did not abandon them. For you are a merciful and compassionate God.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“So now, our God – the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity – do not regard as inconsequential all the hardship that has befallen us – our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people – from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day! <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong! <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law. They have not paid attention to your commandments or your testimonies by which you have solemnly admonished them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible goodness that you had lavished on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>“So today we are slaves! In the very land you gave to our ancestors to eat its fruit and to enjoy its good things – we are slaves! <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Its abundant produce goes to the kings you have placed over us due to our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they see fit, and we are in great distress!</p> <p class="title">The People Pledge to be Faithful</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/9-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><v id="(10:1)" /> “Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant in written form; our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names on the sealed document.”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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