Nehemiah 9:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. American Standard Version (1901) And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. Common English Bible After the Israelites separated themselves from all of the foreigners, they stood to confess their sins and the terrible behavior of their ancestors. Catholic Public Domain Version And the offspring of the sons of Israel were separated from all the sons of foreigners. And they stood up, and they confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the seed of the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger: and they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. |
yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel, did eat,
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Per´izzites, the Jeb´usites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses; for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Neth´inim, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
they clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.
And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
They have dealt treacherously against the Lord; for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.