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Nehemiah 9:33

Bible in Basic English 1965

But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:

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Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

TZADE O Lord, great is your righteousness, and upright are your decisions.

The Lord is upright in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

Then Moses went back to the Lord and said, This people has done a great sin, making themselves a god of gold;

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Because of the evil which they have done, moving me to wrath by burning perfumes in worship to other gods, who were not their gods or yours or the gods of their fathers.

The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.

And you will be certain that I am the Lord: for you have not been guided by my rules or given effect to my orders, but you have been living by the orders of the nations round about you.




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