Nehemiah 9:9-25

Nehemiah 9:9-25

[9] And didst see  the affliction  of our fathers  in Egypt,  and heardest  their cry  by the Red  sea;  [10] And shewedst  signs  and wonders  upon Pharaoh,  and on all his servants,  and on all the people  of his land:  for thou knewest  that they dealt proudly  against them. So didst thou get  thee a name,  as it is this day.  [11] And thou didst divide  the sea  before  them, so that they went through  the midst  of the sea  on the dry land;  and their persecutors  thou threwest  into the deeps,  as a stone  into the mighty  waters.  [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  [22] Moreover thou gavest  them kingdoms  and nations,  and didst divide  them into corners:  so they possessed  the land  of Sihon,  and the land  of the king  of Heshbon,  and the land  of Og  king  of Bashan.  [23] Their children  also multipliedst  thou as the stars  of heaven,  and broughtest  them into the land,  concerning which thou hadst promised  to their fathers,  that they should go in  to possess  [24] So 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,  with their kings,  and the people  of the land,  that they might do  with them as they would.  [25] And they took  strong  cities,  and a fat  land,  and possessed  houses  full  of all goods,  wells  digged,  vineyards,  and oliveyards,  and fruit  trees  in abundance:  so they did eat,  and were filled,  and became fat,  and delighted  themselves in thy great  goodness.