Neh. 9:7‑37• 7Thou art the Same, Jehovah Elohim, who didst choose Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
8and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites,--to give it to his seed; and thou hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous.
9And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;
10and didst shew signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants, and upon all the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them, and thou didst make thee a name, as it is this day.
11And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they went through the midst of the sea on dry ground; and their pursuers thou threwest into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
12And thou leddest them in the day by a pillar of cloud, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
13And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
14And thou madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant.
15And thou gavest them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst say to them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
16But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
17and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a +God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.
18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt! and they had wrought great provocation,
19yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them on the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
20Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
21Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not.
22And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.
23And their children thou didst multiply as the stars of heaven, and thou broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.
24And the children went in and possessed the land; and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, both their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
25And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, wells digged, vineyards and olive-gardens, and fruit trees in abundance. And they did eat and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
26But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
27And thou gavest them into the hand of their oppressors, and they oppressed them; and in the time of their distress, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from the heavens, and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their oppressors.
28But when they had rest, they did evil again before thee; and thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they had dominion over them; and again they cried unto thee, and thou heardest them from the heavens, and many times didst thou deliver them, according to thy mercies.
29And thou testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law; but they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
30And many years didst thou forbear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; but they would not give ear: and thou gavest them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
31Nevertheless for thy manifold mercies' sake, thou didst not make a full end of them nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful *God.
32And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible *God, who keepest covenant and loving-kindness, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the days of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
33But thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast acted according to truth, and we have done wickedly.
34And our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers, have not performed thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
35And they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land that thou didst set before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
36Behold, we are servants this day, and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are bondmen in it.
37And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure; and we are in great distress. (Neh. 9:7‑37)
Psa. 78:1‑72• 1An instruction. Of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,
3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:
4We will not hide them from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.
5For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
6That the generation to come might know them, the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell them to their children,
7And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of *God, but observe his commandments;
8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with *God.
9The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.
10They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.
12In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.
13He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;
14And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.
15He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the depths, abundantly;
16And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
18And they tempted *God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
19And they spoke against God: they said, Is *God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
20Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?
21Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:
22Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;
23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,
24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.
25Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.
26He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;
27And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,
28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:
29And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.
30They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,
31When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;
33And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
34When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after *God;
35And they remembered that God was their rock, and *God, the Most High, their redeemer.
36But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;
37For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
38But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:
39And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.
40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41And they turned again and tempted *God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
42They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,
43How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;
44And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;
45He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;
46And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;
47He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;
48And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress,--a mission of angels of woes.
50He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
51And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.
52And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
53And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.
54And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;
55And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
57And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.
58And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,
61And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;
62And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:
63The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in nuptial song;
64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
65Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;
66And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.
67And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;
69And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.
70And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
71From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands. (Psa. 78:1‑72)
Psa. 105:1‑106:48• 1Give ye thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; make known his acts among the peoples.
2Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; meditate upon all his wondrous works.
3Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.
4Seek Jehovah and his strength, seek his face continually;
5Remember his wondrous works which he hath done, his miracles and the judgments of his mouth:
6Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7He, Jehovah, is our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
8He is ever mindful of his covenant,--the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,--
9Which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
10And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, unto Israel for an everlasting covenant,
11Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
12When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.
13And they went from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
14He suffered no man to oppress them, and reproved kings for their sakes,
15Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.
16And he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.
17He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold for a bondman.
18They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into irons;
19Until the time when what he said came about: the word of Jehovah tried him.
20The king sent and loosed him--the ruler of peoples--and let him go free.
21He made him lord of his house, and ruler over all his possessions:
22To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.
23And Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24And he made his people exceeding fruitful, and made them mightier than their oppressors.
25He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
26He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen:
27They set his signs among them, and miracles in the land of Ham.
28He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
29He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.
30Their land swarmed with frogs,--in the chambers of their kings.
31He spoke, and there came dog-flies, and gnats in all their borders.
32He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land;
33And he smote their vines and their fig-trees, and broke the trees of their borders.
34He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number;
35And they devoured every herb in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.
36And he smote every firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigour.
37And he brought them forth with silver and gold; and there was not one feeble among their tribes.
38Egypt rejoiced at their departure; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.
39He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.
40They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41He opened the rock, and waters gushed forth; they ran in the dry places like a river.
42For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham his servant;
43And he brought forth his people with gladness, his chosen with rejoicing;
44And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the labour of the peoples:
45That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Hallelujah!
1Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness endureth for ever.
2Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? who can shew forth all his praise?
3Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
4Remember me, O Jehovah, with thy favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:
5That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
6We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
7Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.
8Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.
9And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.
10And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.
12Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
13They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:
14And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted *God in the desert.
15Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
16And they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.
17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;
18And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.
19They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;
20And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
21They forgot *God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,
22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
23And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them.
24And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,
25But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.
26And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;
27And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
28And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;
29And they provoked him to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.
30Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;
31And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.
32And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;
33For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
34They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;
35But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;
36And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:
37And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
38And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
39And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.
40Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;
41And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:
42And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
43Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.
44But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;
45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;
46And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.
47Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
48Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah! (Psa. 105:1‑106:48)
Dan. 9:6‑15• 6And we have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee.
8O Lord, unto us is confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
9With the Lord our God are mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against him;
10and we have not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us through his servants the prophets.
11And all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside so as not to listen unto thy voice. And the curse hath been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God: for we have sinned against him.
12And he hath performed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil; so that there hath not been done under the whole heaven as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us; yet we besought not Jehovah our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
14And Jehovah hath watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he hath done; and we have not hearkened unto his voice.
15--And now, O Lord our God, who broughtest thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and hast made thee a name, as it is this day,--we have sinned, we have done wickedly. (Dan. 9:6‑15)