Nehemiah 9:12-21

Nehemiah 9:12-21

[12] Moreover thou leddest  them in the day  by a cloudy  pillar;  and in the night  by a pillar  of fire,  to give them light  in the way  [13] Thou camest down  also upon mount  Sinai,  and spakest  with them from heaven,  and gavest  them right  judgments,  and true  laws,  good  statutes  and commandments:  [14] And madest known  unto them thy holy  sabbath,  and commandedst  them precepts,  statutes,  and laws,  by the hand  of Moses  thy servant:  [15] And gavest  them bread  from heaven  for their hunger,  and broughtest forth  water  for them out of the rock  for their thirst,  and promisedst  them that they should go in  to possess  the land  which thou hadst sworn  to give  them. [16] But they and our fathers  dealt proudly,  and hardened  their necks,  and hearkened  not to thy commandments,  [17] And refused  to obey,  neither were mindful  of thy wonders  that thou didst  among them; but hardened  their necks,  and in their rebellion  appointed  a captain  to return  to their bondage:  but thou art a God  ready to pardon,  gracious  and merciful,  slow  to anger,  and of great  kindness,  and forsookest  them not. [18] Yea, when they had made  them a molten  calf,  and said,  This is thy God  that brought thee up  out of Egypt,  and had wrought  great  provocations;  [19] Yet thou in thy manifold  mercies  forsookest  them not in the wilderness:  the pillar  of the cloud  departed  not from them by day,  to lead  them in the way;  neither the pillar  of fire  by night,  to shew them light,  and the way  [20] Thou gavest  also thy good  spirit  to instruct  them, and withheldest  not thy manna  from their mouth,  and gavest  them water  for their thirst.  [21] Yea, forty  years  didst thou sustain  them in the wilderness,  so that they lacked  nothing; their clothes  waxed not old,  and their feet  swelled