Nehemiah Chapter 9

• Nehemiah 9:1
  Nehemiah.
• Nehemiah 9:2
  Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
• Nehemiah 9:3
  The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
• Nehemiah 9:5
  Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to the L...
• Nehemiah 9:6
  Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God fro...
• Nehemiah 9:7
  You are the LORD, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas ...
• Nehemiah 9:8
  You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,
• Nehemiah 9:9
  found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebu...
• Nehemiah 9:10
  “You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
• Nehemiah 9:11
  and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his servants, and against all the people of his land, for you knew that they dealt proudly a...
• Nehemiah 9:12
  You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a st...
• Nehemiah 9:13
  Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
• Nehemiah 9:14
  “You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
• Nehemiah 9:15
  and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
• Nehemiah 9:16
  and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go...
• Nehemiah 9:17
  “But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
• Nehemiah 9:18
  and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain...
• Nehemiah 9:19
  Yes, when they had made themselves a molded calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies,
• Nehemiah 9:20
  yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the w...
• Nehemiah 9:21
  You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
• Nehemiah 9:22
  “Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
• Nehemiah 9:23
  Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the...
• Nehemiah 9:24
  You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers that they should...
• Nehemiah 9:25
  “So the children went in and possessed the land; and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their han...
• Nehemiah 9:26
  They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees i...
• Nehemiah 9:27
  “Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to tur...
• Nehemiah 9:28
  Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard ...
• Nehemiah 9:29
  But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over the...
• Nehemiah 9:30
  and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned ag...
• Nehemiah 9:31
  Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave th...
• Nehemiah 9:32
  “Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
• Nehemiah 9:33
  Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little befo...
• Nehemiah 9:34
  However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
• Nehemiah 9:35
  Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which yo...
• Nehemiah 9:36
  For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before the...
• Nehemiah 9:37
  “Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
• Nehemiah 9:38
  It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at th...
• Nehemiah 9:39
  Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”