9NOW ON the twenty-fourth day of this month, the Israelites were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth and with earth upon their heads.H6242H702H3117H2320H1121H3478H622H6685H8242H127 2And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.H2233H3478H914H1121H5236H5975H3034H2403H5771H1 3And they stood in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day, and for another fourth of it they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God.H6965H5977H7121H5612H8451H3068H430H7243H3117H7243H3034H7812H3068H430 4On the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.H6965H4608H3881H3442H1137H6934H7645H1138H8274H1137H3662H2199H1419H6963H3068H430 5Then 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.H3881H3442H6934H1137H2813H8274H1941H7645H6611H559H6965H1288H3068H430H5769H5769H1288H3519H8034H7311H1293H8416 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; and You preserve them all, and the hosts of heaven worship You.H3068H6213H8064H8064H8064H6635H776H3220H2421H6635H8064H7812 7You are the Lord, the God Who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees and gave him the name Abraham.H3068H430H977H87H3318H218H3778H7760H8034H85 8You found his heart faithful before You, and You made the covenant with him to give his descendants the land of the Canaanite, Hittite, Amorite, Perizzite, Jebusite, and Girgashite. And You have fulfilled Your promise, for You are just {and} righteous.H4672H3824H539H6440H3772H1285H5414H776H3669H2850H567H6522H2983H1622H5414H2233H6965H1697H6662 9You saw our fathers' affliction in Egypt, and You heard their cry at the Red Sea.H7200H6040H1H4714H8085H2201H5488H3220 10You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for You knew that they dealt insolently against the Israelites. And You got for Yourself a name, as it is today.H5414H226H4159H6547H5650H5971H776H3045H2102H6213H8034H3117 11You divided the sea before them, so that they went through its midst on dry land; their persecutors You threw into the depths, as a stone into mighty waters.H1234H3220H6440H5674H8432H3220H3004H7291H7993H4688H68H5794H4325 12Moreover, by a pillar of cloud You led them by day, and by a pillar of fire by night to light the way they should go.H5148H3119H6051H5982H3915H5982H784H215H1870H3212 13You came down also upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from Heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments.H3381H2022H5514H1696H8064H5414H3477H4941H571H8451H2896H2706H4687 14And You made known to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments, statutes, and a law through Moses Your servant.H3045H6944H7676H6680H4687H2706H8451H3027H4872H5650 15You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst; and You told them to go in and possess the land You had sworn to give them.H5414H3899H8064H7458H3318H4325H5553H6772H559H935H3423H776H3027H5375H5414 16But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.H1H2102H7185H6203H8085H4687 17They refused to obey, nor were they mindful of Your wonders {and} miracles which You did among them; but they stiffened their necks and in their rebellion appointed a captain, that they might return to their bondage [in Egypt]. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great steadfast love; and You did not forsake them.H3985H8085H2142H6381H6213H7185H6203H4805H5414H7218H7725H5659H433H5547H2587H7349H750H639H7227H2617H5800 18Even when they had made for themselves a molten calf and said, This is your god, who brought you out of Egypt, and had committed great {and} contemptible blasphemies,H6213H4541H5695H559H430H5927H4714H6213H1419H5007 19You in Your great mercy forsook them not in the wilderness; the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night to light the way they should go.H7227H7356H5800H4057H5982H6051H5493H3119H5148H1870H5982H784H3915H215H1870H3212 20You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, and withheld not Your manna from them, and gave water for their thirst.H5414H2896H7307H7919H4513H4478H6310H5414H4325H6772 21Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing, their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.H705H8141H3557H4057H2637H8008H1086H7272H1216 22Also You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. So they possessed the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan.H5414H4467H5971H2505H6285H3423H776H5511H776H4428H2809H776H5747H4428H1316 23Their children You also multiplied as the stars of heaven and brought them into the land which You told their fathers they should go in and possess.H1121H7235H3556H8064H935H776H559H1H935H3423 24So 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, that they might do with them as they would.H1121H935H3423H776H3665H6440H3427H776H3669H5414H3027H4428H5971H776H6213H7522 25And they captured fortified cities and a rich land and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards, olive orchards, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in Your great goodness.H3920H1219H5892H8082H127H3423H1004H4392H2898H953H2672H3754H2132H3978H6086H7230H398H7646H8080H5727H1419H2898 26Yet they were disobedient and rebelled against You and cast Your law behind their back and killed Your prophets who accused {and} warned them to turn to You again; and they committed great {and} contemptible blasphemies.H4784H4775H7993H8451H310H1458H2026H5030H5749H7725H6213H1419H5007 27Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who distressed them. In the time of their suffering when they cried to You, You heard them from heaven, and according to Your abundant mercy You gave them deliverers, who saved them from their enemies.H5414H3027H6862H6887H6256H6869H6817H8085H8064H7227H7356H5414H3467H3467H3027H6862 28But after they had rest, they did evil again before You; therefore You left them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to You, You heard them from heaven, and many times You delivered them according to Your mercies,H5117H6213H7451H7725H6440H5800H3027H341H7287H7725H2199H8085H8064H7227H6256H5337H7356 29And reproved {and} warned them, that You might bring them again to Your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not heed Your commandments, but sinned against Your ordinances, which by keeping, a man shall live. And they turned a stubborn shoulder, stiffened their neck, and would not listen.H5749H7725H8451H2102H8085H4687H2398H4941H120H6213H2421H5414H5637H3802H7185H6203H8085 30Yet You bore with them many years more and reproved {and} warned them by Your Spirit through Your prophets; still they would not listen. Therefore You gave them into the power of the peoples of the lands.H7227H8141H4900H5749H7307H3027H5030H238H5414H3027H5971H776 31Yet in Your great mercies You did not utterly consume them or forsake them, for You are a gracious and merciful God.H7227H7356H6213H3617H5800H2587H7349H410 32Now therefore, our God, the great, mighty, and terrible God, Who keeps covenant and mercy {and} loving-kindness, let not all the trouble {and} hardship seem little to You--the hardship that has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and on all Your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.H430H1419H1368H3372H410H8104H1285H2617H8513H4591H6440H4672H4428H8269H3548H5030H1H5971H3117H4428H804H3117 33However, You are just in all that has come upon us; for You have dealt faithfully, but we have done wickedly;H6662H935H6213H571H7561 34Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept Your law or hearkened to Your commandments and Your warnings {and} reproofs which You gave them.H4428H8269H3548H1H6213H8451H7181H4687H5715H5749 35They did not serve You in their kingdom, and in Your great goodness that You gave them and in the large and rich land You set before them, nor did they turn from their wicked works.H5647H4438H7227H2898H5414H7342H8082H776H5414H6440H7725H7451H4611 36Behold, we are slaves this day, and as for the land that You gave to our fathers to eat the fruit and the good of it, behold, we are slaves in it.H5650H3117H776H5414H1H398H6529H2898H5650 37And 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.H7235H8393H4428H5414H2403H4910H1472H929H7522H1419H6869 38Because of all this, we make a firm {and} sure written covenant, and our princes, Levites, and priests set their seal to it.H3772H548H3789H8269H3881H3548H2856
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