- Nehemias (Second of Esdras)
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chapter 9
1
And in
the four and twentieth day of the month the children of Israel came together
with fasting and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.
2 And the seed of the children of Israel separated
themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and
the iniquities of their fathers.
3 And they rose up to stand: and they read in the book
of the law of the Lord their God, four times in the day, and four times they
confessed, and adored the Lord their God.
4 And there stood up upon the seep of the Levites,
Josue, and Bani, and Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and
they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.
5 And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel, Bonni, Hasebnia,
Serebia, Oduia, Sebnia, and Phathahia, said: Arise, bless the Lord your God
from eternity to eternity: and blessed be the high name of thy glory with all
blessing and praise.
6 Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made heaven,
and the heaven of heavens, and all the host thereof: the earth and all things
that are in it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou givest life to all
these things, and the host of heaven adoreth thee.
7 Thou, O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and
broughtest him forth out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name
of Abraham.
8 And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee:
and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of
the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite,
and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy
words, because thou art just.
9 And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in
Egypt: and thou didst hear their cry by the Red Sea.
10 And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and
upon all his servants, and upon the people of his land : for thou knewest that
they dealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at
this day.
11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they
passed through the midst of the sea on dry land: but their persecutors thou
threwest into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.
12 And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by
day, and in a pillar of Are by night, that they might see the way by which they
went.
13 Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst
speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law
of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts.
14 Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and
didst prescribe to them commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand
of Moses thy servant.
15 And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their
hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst,
and thou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon
which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them.
16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened
their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments.
17 And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy
wonders which thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave
the head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a
forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of compassion,
didst not forsake them.
18 Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten
calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and hail
committed great blasphemies :
19 Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them
in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead
them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which
they should go.
20 And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them,
and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them
water for their thirst.
21 Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing
was wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not
worn.
22 And thou gavest them kingdoms, and nations, and
didst divide lots for them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land
of the king of Hesebon, and the land of Og king of Basan.
23 And thou didst multiply their children as the stars
of heaven, and broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to
their fathers, that they should go in and possess it.
24 And the children came and possessed the land, and
thou didst humble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Chanaanites, and
gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land,
that they might do with them as it pleased them.
25 And they took strong cities and a fat land, and
possessed houses full of all goods: cisterns made by others, vine- yards, and
oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and were filled, and
became fat, and abounded with de- light in thy great goodness.
26 But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from
thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who
admonished them earnestly to return to thee : and they were guilty of great
blasphemies.
27 And thou gavest them into the hands of their
enemies, and they afflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation they
cried to thee, and thou heardest from heaven, and according to the multitude of
thy tender mercies thou gavest them saviours, to save them from the hands of
their enemies.
28 But after they had rest, they returned to do evil in
thy sight : and thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies, and they had
dominion over them. Then they returned, and cried to thee: and thou heardest
from heaven, and deliveredst them many times in thy mercies.
29 And thou didst admonish them to re turn to thy law.
But they dealt proudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned
against thy judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they
withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
30 And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and
didst testify against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they
heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the
lands.
31 Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly
consume them, nor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God.
32 Now therefore our God, great, strong and terrible,
who keepest covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour
which hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and
our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the king of
Assur, until this day.
33 And thou art just in all things that have come upon
us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.
34 Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers
have not kept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy
testimonies which thou hast testified among them.
35 And they have not served thee in their kingdoms, and
in thy manifold goodness, which thou gavest them, and in the large and fat
land, which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they return from their most
wicked devices.
36 Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the
land, which thou gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good
things thereof, and we ourselves are servants in it.
37 And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom
thou hast set over us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and
over our beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.
38 and because of all this we ourselves make a
covenant, and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.
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