Nehemiah 9
9:1And on the twentieth and fourth day of this month, the sons of Israel gathered together for fasting, and with sackcloths and ashes upon their head.
9:2And the sons of Israel separated from every alien son; and they stood and declared openly their sins, and the lawless deeds of their fathers.
9:3And they stood in their position, and they read in the scroll of the law of the lord their God the fourth of the day. And they were declaring openly to the lord the fourth of the day, and doing obeisance to the lord their God.
9:4And Jeshua stood upon the ascent of the Levites, and the sons of Kadmiel, Secheniah son of Sherebiah, son of Chenani. And they yelled with a great voice to the lord their God.
9:5And the Levites said, Jeshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Sherebiah, Hodijah Shebaniah, Pethahiah, Rise up, bless the lord our God from the eon and unto the eon! And they shall bless your glorious name, and shall raise it up high with all blessing and praise.
9:6And Ezra said, You are he, the lord alone. You made the heaven and the heaven of the heaven, and all their positions; the earth and all as much as is in it; the seas and all the things in them. And you restore to life all things; and to you the militaries of the heavens do obeisance.
9:7You are, O lord, the God. You chose Abram, and you led him from the place of the Chaldeans, and placed unto him the name Abraham.
9:8And you found his heart trustworthy before you, and you ordained with him a covenant, so as to give to him the land of the Canaanites, and Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Jebusites, and Girgashites, and to give it to his seed. And you established your words, for you are just.
9:9And you beheld the humiliation of our fathers in Egypt, and you heard their cry at the red sea.
9:10And you gave signs and miracles in Egypt to Pharaoh, and among all his servants, and among all the people of his land, for you knew that they extolled themselves above them; and you made for yourself a name as it is this day.
9:11And you tore up the sea before them, and they went in the midst of the sea in dryness; and the ones pursuing them you tossed into the bottom of the sea, as a stone in vehement water.
9:12And in a column of cloud you guided them by day; and by a column of fire at night, to give light to them for the way in which they went by it.
9:13And upon mount Sinai you went down and spoke to them from out of heaven, and you gave to them right judgments, and laws of truth, orders, and good commandments.
9:14And your holy Sabbath you made known to them; commandments, and orders, and law, you gave charge to them by the hand of Moses your servant.
9:15And bread from heaven you gave to them for their provision, and water from out of the rock you brought forth for them for their thirst. And you spoke to them to enter to inherit the land into which you stretched out your hand to give to them.
9:16But they and our fathers were prideful, and they hardened their neck, and they did not hearken unto your commandments.
9:17And they shook their heads in dissent to listen, and did not remember your wonders which you performed among them. And they hardened their neck, and they granted a sovereign to return them to slavery in Egypt. But you, O God, in forgiving sins are merciful and pitying, lenient and full of mercy, and did not abandon them.
9:18And still also they made for themselves a molten calf. And they said, These are the gods, the ones leading us from Egypt. And they committed great provocations to anger.
9:19And you in your great compassions did not abandon them in the wilderness. The column of cloud did not turn aside from them by day to guide them in the way; and the column of fire by night to give light to them in the way in which they went by it.
9:20And your good spirit gave a bringing of understanding to them, and your manna you did not withhold from their mouth, and you gave water to them in their thirst.
9:21And forty years you nourished them in the wilderness, and they lacked not one thing; their garments did not become old, and their sandals were not torn up.
9:22And you gave them kingdoms, and you divided peoples to them. And they inherited the land of Sihon king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
9:23And their sons you multiplied as the stars of the heaven, and brought them into the land which you spoke to their fathers, to enter and to inherit.
9:24And their sons entered and inherited the land. And you obliterated before them the ones dwelling the land of the Canaanites, and you gave them into their hands, even their kings, and the peoples of the land, to do to them as was pleasing before them.
9:25And they overtook high cities, and a fertile land. And they inherited houses full of all good things, and pits for quarrying, vineyards and olive groves, and every tree of eatable things in multitude. And they ate, and were filled up, and were fattened, and indulged in your great goodness.
9:26And they changed and revolted from you. And they tossed your law behind their body, and they killed your prophets, the ones testifying to them to turn them towards you. And they made great provocations to anger.
9:27And you gave them into the hand of ones afflicting them, and they afflicted them. And they yelled out to you in the time of their affliction, and you heard from out of your heaven, and in your great compassions you gave deliverers to them, and they delivered them from the hand of ones afflicting them.
9:28And as they were caused to rest, they turned to act wickedly before you. And you abandoned them into the hands of their enemies, and they ruled among them. And again they yelled out to you. And you from out of heaven listened and rescued them by your abundant compassions.
9:29And you attested to them, to turn them to your law. But they acted superior, and hearkened not of your commandments. And in your judgments they sinned, (which a man doing them shall live by them;) and they gave their back unto resisting persuasion, and they hardened their neck, and they did not hearken.
9:30And you were long-suffering unto them many years, and drew out patience unto them many years, and attested to them by your spirit, by the hand of your prophets. But they did not give ear, and you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the land.
9:31And you, in your abundant compassions did not appoint them to consummation, and you did not abandon them; for you are strong, and merciful, and pitying.
9:32And now, O our God, the strong, the great, the fortified and fearsome; guarding your covenant, and your mercy; do not let your attention be lessened before you concerning all the trouble which found us, and our kings, and our rulers, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and among all your people from the days of the kings of Assyria, and until this day!
9:33For you are just concerning all the things coming upon us, for truth you acted, but we were led into sin.
9:34And our kings, and our rulers, and our priests, and our fathers observed not your law, and heeded not your commandments, and your testimonies which you testified to them.
9:35And they in your kingdom, and in your abundant goodness which you gave to them, and in the spacious and lustrous land which you put before them, did not serve you, and they did not turn from their wicked practices.
9:36Behold, we are today servants, and the land which you gave to our fathers, to eat the fruit of it, and the good things of it, even behold, we are servants upon it.
9:37And its many fruits became to the kings which you put over us because of our sins; and they exercise authority over our bodies, and over our cattle as is pleasing to them, and we are in great affliction.
9:38And in all these things we are ordained a trust, and we write it; and our rulers put a seal upon it -- our Levites, our priests.