Neh. 9:7‑37• 7{i}Thou 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;{/i}
8{i}and 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.{/i}
9{i}And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;{/i}
10{i}and didst show 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.{/i}
11{i}And 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.{/i}
12{i}And 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.{/i}
13{i}And 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.{/i}
14{i}And thou madest known unto them thy holy Sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant.{/i}
15{i}And 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.{/i}
16{i}But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,{/i}
17{i}and 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.{/i}
18{i}Yea, 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,{/i}
19{i}yet 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 show them light, and the way wherein they should go.{/i}
20{i}Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.{/i}
21{i}Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not.{/i}
22{i}And 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.{/i}
23{i}And 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.{/i}
24{i}And 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.{/i}
25{i}And 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.{/i}
26{i}But 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.{/i}
27{i}And 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.{/i}
28{i}But 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.{/i}
29{i}And 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.{/i}
30{i}And 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.{/i}
31{i}Nevertheless 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.{/i}
32{i}And 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.{/i}
33{i}But thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast acted according to truth, and we have done wickedly.{/i}
34{i}And 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.{/i}
35{i}And 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.{/i}
36{i}Behold, 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.{/i}
37{i}And 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.{/i} (Neh. 9:7‑37)
Psa. 78:1‑72• 1An instruction of Asaph.{HR}Give ear, my people, to my law;{HR}Incline your ear to the words of my mouth.
2I will open my mouth in a parable,{HR}I will utter dark sayings from of old;
3Which we have heard and known,{HR}And our fathers have told us.
4We will not hide [them] from their sons,{HR}Telling the generations to come the praises of Jehovah,{HR}And his strength, and his wondrous works which he wrought.
5For he established a testimony in Jacob,{HR}And appointed a law in Israel,{HR}Which he commanded our fathers to make [them] known to their sons,
6That the generation to come might know, sons to be born,{HR}Who should rise up and tell their sons,
7And they might set their hope in God,{HR}And not forget the deeds of God (El),{HR}And keep his commandments;
8And might not be as their fathers,{HR}A stubborn and rebellious generation,{HR}A generation that set (prepared) not their hearts,{HR}And whose spirit was not steadfast with God (El).
9The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen,{HR}Turned in the day of battle.
10They kept not God's covenant{HR}And in his law refused to walk;
11And they forgot his deeds{HR}And his wondrous works{HR}Which he caused them to see.
12In the sight of their fathers{HR}He wrought wonders in the land of Egypt,{HR}The field of Zoan.
13He clave the sea and caused them to pass through{HR}And made the waters to stand as a heap;
14And he led them with a cloud by day{HR}And all the night with light of fire.
15He clave rocks in the wilderness,{HR}And gave drink as the depths abundantly,
16He brought streams from the rock (crag){HR}And caused waters to come down like the rivers.
17Yet they still went on to sin against him,{HR}To rebel against the Most High in the desert (dry);
18And they tempted God in their hearts{HR}By asking food for their lust (souls).
19And they spoke against God; they said,{HR}Shall God be able to furnish a table in the wilderness?
20Behold, he smote the rock,{HR}And waters gushed out,{HR}And streams overflowed;{HR}Can he give bread also,{HR}Or provide flesh for his people?
21Therefore Jehovah heard and was wroth;{HR}And fire was kindled against Jacob,{HR}And anger also went up against Israel;
22Because they believed not in God{HR}And trusted not in his salvation.
23Yet he commanded the skies above,{HR}And opened the doors of heaven,
24And he rained upon them manna to eat,{HR}And had given them the corn of the heavens.
25Man did eat the bread of the mighty;{HR}He sent them provision to the full.
26He led forth the east [wind] in the heavens,{HR}And by his strength guided the south [wind],
27And he rained flesh upon them as dust{HR}And winged fowl as sand of the sea,
28And let it fall in the midst of the camp{HR}Round about their habitations.
29And they did eat and were well filled.{HR}He brought to them their desire;
30They were not estranged from their desire;{HR}Their food [was] yet in their mouths,
31When God's anger went up against them and slew their fattest,{HR}And smote down the chosen of Israel.
32For all this they sinned still,{HR}And believed not in his wondrous works;
33He consumed their days in vanity,{HR}And their years in terror.
34When he slew them, then they enquired after him,{HR}And turned and sought God (El) eagerly.
35And they remembered that God [was] their rock,{HR}And God Most High their redeemer.
36And they flattered (enticed) him with their mouth,{HR}And lied to him with their tongue.
37And their heart was not firm with him,{HR}Nor were they steadfast in his covenant.
38But he mercifully forgave iniquity, and destroyed not,{HR}And often withdrew his anger and did not arouse all his wrath;
39And he remembered that they [were] flesh,{HR}A wind passing and not coming again.
40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness{HR}And grieve him in the desert!
41And they turned again and tempted God ,{HR}And limited the Holy One of Israel.
42They remembered not his hand,{HR}The day when he delivered them from oppression,
43How he set his signs in Egypt{HR}And his wonders in the field of Zoan,
44And turned their rivers to blood,{HR}And their streams that they could not drink.
45He sent among them dogflies, and they devoured them;{HR}And frogs, and they destroyed them.
46And he gave their increase to the caterpillar,{HR}And their labour to the locust.
47He killed their vines with the hail,{HR}And their sycamore trees with the frost,
48And delivered their cattle to the hail{HR}And their flocks to the lightnings.
49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,{HR}Wrath, and indignation, and distress,{HR}By sending angels of woes.
50He made a path for his anger,{HR}He withheld their soul from death,{HR}And their life he gave over to the pestilence;
51And he smote every first-born in Egypt,{HR}The first fruits of vigour in the tents of Ham.
52And he made his people go as the sheep,{HR}And guided them as the flock in the wilderness;
53And he led them safely, and they feared not;{HR}And the sea covered their enemies.
54And he brought them to the border of his holiness,{HR}This mountain his right hand purchased,
55And drove out before them nations,{HR}And allotted them by a line [for] an inheritance,{HR}And caused the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents..
56But they tempted and resisted God Most High,{HR}And kept not his testimonies,
57And revolted, and dealt treacherously like their fathers;{HR}They were turned like a deceitful bow.
58And they provoked him to anger with their high places,{HR}And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59God heard and was wroth{HR}And greatly abhorred Israel.
60And he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,{HR}His tent he pitched among men,
61And gave his strength into captivity,{HR}And his beauty into the oppressor's hand.
62And he gave over to the sword his people,{HR}And was wroth with his inheritance.
63The fire consumed their chosen,{HR}And their maidens were not praised in song;
64Their priests fell by the sword,{HR}And their widows wept not.
65And the Lord awoke as a sleeper,{HR}As a mighty man shouting aloud from wine;
66And he smote his adversaries backward{HR}And put them to everlasting reproach.
67And he rejected the tent of Joseph,{HR}And the tribe of Ephraim did not choose;
68And he chose the tribe of Judah,{HR}The mount Zion which he loved.
69And he built his sanctuary like high [places],{HR}Like the earth he founded forever.
70And he chose David his servant,{HR}And took him from the sheepfold;
71From behind suckling [ewes] he brought him{HR}To feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance.
72And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart,{HR}And in the skill of his hands he led them. (Psa. 78:1‑72)
Psa. 105:1‑106:48• 1Give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name;{HR}Make known his acts among the peoples.
2Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him;{HR}Talk of all his wondrous works.
3Glory in his holy name;{HR}Glad be the heart of those that enquire for Jehovah.
4Seek Jehovah and his strength,{HR}Enquire for his face continually.
5Remember his wondrous works which he hath done,{HR}His miracles and the judgments of his mouth,
6O seed of Abraham his servant,{HR}Sons of Jacob, his chosen (ones).
7He, Jehovah, [is] our God;{HR}In all the earth [are] his judgments.
8He remembered forever his covenant,{HR}A word he commanded to a thousand generations,
9Which he ratified (cut) with Abraham,{HR}And his oath to Isaac,
10And he confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,{HR}To Israel an everlasting covenant,
11Saying, To thee will I give the land of Canaan,{HR}Lot (line) of your inheritance,
12When they were even to be numbered as a few,{HR}And sojourners in it;
13And they walked from nation to nation,{HR}From a kingdom to another people.
14He suffered no man to oppress them{HR}And reproved kings for their sakes,
15[Saying] Touch not mine anointed,{HR}And do my prophets no harm.
16And he called a famine on the land;{HR}Every staff of bread he broke.
17He sent a man before them;{HR}Joseph was sold for a slave.
18They hurt with the fetters his feet;{HR}[Into] iron went his soul,
19Until the time his word came;{HR}Jehovah's saying tried him.
20A king sent and loosed him,{HR}A ruler of peoples,{HR}And set him free.
21He made him lord of his house{HR}And ruler of all his possession,
22To bind his princes at his pleasure (soul),{HR}And make his elders wise.
23And Israel came [into] Egypt,{HR}And Jacob sojourned in Ham's land.
24And he fructified his people greatly,{HR}And made them stronger than their enemies.
25He turned their heart, to hate his people,{HR}To deal craftily with his servants.
26He sent Moses his servant,{HR}[And] Aaron whom he chose.
27They set among them words of his signs{HR}And wonders in Ham's land.
28He sent darkness and made it dark;{HR}And they rebelled not against his words.
29He turned their waters to blood,{HR}And killed their fish.
30Their land swarmed with frogs{HR}In their kings' chambers.
31He spoke, and dog-flies came,{HR}Lice in all their border.
32He made them storms of hail,{HR}Flames of fire in their land.
33And he smote their vines and fig trees,{HR}And broke the trees of their border.
34He spoke, and locusts came and canker-worm,{HR}And there was no number;
35And they devoured every herb in their land,{HR}And ate the fruit of their ground.
36And he smote every firstborn in their land,{HR}Firstfruits of all their strength.
37And he brought them out with silver and gold,{HR}And there was not among their tribes a stumbling [one].
38Egypt was glad at their departure,{HR}For their fear fell upon them.
39He spread a cloud for a covering{HR}And fire to give light [by] night.
40[The people] asked, and he brought quails,{HR}And satisfied them with bread of heaven.
41He opened a rock, and waters gushed forth;{HR}They ran in the dry places, a river.
42For he remembered his holy word{HR}[And] Abraham his servant,
43And he brought forth his people with joy,{HR}His chosen with shouting;
44And he gave them lands of nations,{HR}And they inherited the Gentiles' toil;
45That they might keep his statutes{HR}And observe his laws. Praise ye Jah .
1Praise ye Jah . Give thanks unto Jehovah,{HR}For [he is] good, for his mercy [is] forever.
2Who shall tell the powers of Jehovah—{HR}Shall utter all his praise?
3Blessed they that keep judgment,{HR}He that doeth righteousness at every time.
4Remember me, O Jehovah, in the favour of thy people,{HR}Visit me with (in) thy salvation,
5To look on (in) the good of thy chosen ones,{HR}To rejoice in the joy of thy nation,{HR}To glory with thine inheritance.
6We have sinned with our fathers,{HR}We have been perverse,{HR}We have done wickedly.
7Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders;{HR}They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies,{HR}But rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.
8Yet he saved them for his name's sake,{HR}To make known his power.
9And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;{HR}And he made them walk through the depths as the wilderness.
10And he saved them from the hater's hand,{HR}And redeemed them from the enemy's hand.
11And waters covered their adversaries;{HR}Not one of them was left.
12Then (and) believed they his words,{HR}They sang his praise.
13They hasted, they forgot his works,{HR}They waited not for his counsel;
14And lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,{HR}And tempted God in the desert.
15And he gave them their request,{HR}And sent leanness into their soul.
16And they were envious of Moses in the camp,{HR}Of Aaron, saint of Jehovah.
17Earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,{HR}And covered Abiram's company.
18And a fire burned in their company,{HR}A flame consumed wicked ones.
19They made a calf in Horeb{HR}And bowed down to a molten image;
20And changed their glory{HR}For the likeness of an ox eating grass.
21They forgot God their Saviour{HR}That did great things in Egypt,
22Wondrous works in Ham's land,{HR}Terrible things at the Red Sea.
23And he said he would destroy them,{HR}Had not Moses stood in the breach before him,{HR}To turn away his wrath from destroying.
24And they despised the pleasant land,{HR}They believed not his word;
25But they murmured in their tents;{HR}They did not hearken to Jehovah's voice.
26And he lifted up his hand to them,{HR}To make them fall in the wilderness,
27And to make their seed fall among the nations,{HR}And to scatter them in the lands.
28And they joined themselves to Baal-Peor{HR}And ate sacrifices of dead (beings).
29And they provoked him by their actions,{HR}And the plague broke out among them.
30Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment,{HR}And the plague was stayed.
31And it was reckoned to him for righteousness{HR}To generation and generation for evermore.
32And they angered him at the waters of Meribah,{HR}And it went ill with Moses on their account,
33For they provoked his spirit,{HR}And he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
34They destroyed not the peoples{HR}As (about which) Jehovah said to them;
35But they mingled with the nations{HR}And learned their doings.
36And they served their idols,{HR}Which became a snare unto them.
37And they sacrificed their sons{HR}And their daughters to the demons;
38And shed innocent blood—{HR}Blood of their sons and their daughters,{HR}Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan,{HR}And the land was polluted with blood.
39And they were defiled in their doings,{HR}And went a whoring in their actions.
40And Jehovah's anger was kindled at his people,{HR}And he abhorred his inheritance.
41And he gave them into nations' hand,{HR}And over them ruled their haters.
42And their enemies oppressed them,{HR}And they were bowed down under their hand.
43Many times he delivereth them,{HR}And they rebel in their counsel{HR}And were brought low by their iniquity.
44But he regarded them in the distress{HR}When he heard them cry.
45And he remembered for them his covenant,{HR}And repented according to the multitude of his mercies;
46And he gave them compassion{HR}Before all that took them captives.
47Save us, Jehovah our God,{HR}And gather us from among the nations{HR}To give thanks unto thy holy name,{HR}To glory in thy praise.
48Blessed [be] Jehovah God of Israel{HR}From the everlasting and unto the everlasting!{HR}And let all the people say, Amen, Hallelujah . (Psa. 105:1‑106:48)
Dan. 9:6‑15• 6{i}And 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.{/i}
7{i}Thine, 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.{/i}
8{i}O Lord, unto us is confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.{/i}
9{i}With the Lord our God are mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against him;{/i}
10{i}and 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.{/i}
11{i}And 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.{/i}
12{i}And 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.{/i}
13{i}As 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.{/i}
14{i}And 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.{/i}
15{i}—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.{/i} (Dan. 9:6‑15)