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Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>And Ezra said:<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12518b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> “You are the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, 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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>You are the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>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.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>“And you saw the distress of our ancestors in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12521c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>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, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>and you made known your holy sabbath to them and gave them commandments and statutes and a law through your servant Moses. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>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.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>“But they and our ancestors acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks and did not obey your commandments; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>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, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>You gave your good spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and gave them water for their thirst. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, and allotted to them every corner,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12534d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> so they took possession of the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>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.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>“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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>“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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>You have been just in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>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.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Those Who Signed the Covenant</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span><span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-12550e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> 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.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Nehemiah 9:1">Nehemiah 9:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>on them</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Nehemiah 9:6">Nehemiah 9:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb lacks <i>And Ezra said</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Nehemiah 9:9">Nehemiah 9:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Sea of Reeds</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Nehemiah 9:22">Nehemiah 9:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Nehemiah 9:38">Nehemiah 9:38</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Ch 10.1 in Heb</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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