Nehemiah 9:17–27

17 And refused to obey, neither xwere mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but uhardened their necks, and in their rebellion yappointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art †a God ready to pardon, zgracious and merciful, zaslow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not. 18 Yea, bwhen they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought cgreat provocations; 19 Yet thou in dthy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: ethe 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 wherein they should go. 20 Thou gavest also thy fgood spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy gmanna from their mouth, and gavest them gwater for their thirst. 21 Yea, hforty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; itheir clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. 22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into kcorners: so they possessed the land of lSihon, and the land of the king of mHeshbon, and the land of nOg king of Bashan. 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as othe stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it. 24 So pthe children went in and possessed the land, and qthou 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 rfat land, and possessed shouses full of all goods, ||wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and †fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and tbecame fat, and delighted themselves in uthy great goodness. 26 Nevertheless xthey were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and ycast thy law behind their backs, and zslew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought agreat provocations. 27 bTherefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to cthy manifold mercies thou gavest them dsaviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.