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Nehemiah 9:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They refused to listen and did not remember your wonders which you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.  , But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love, and you did not abandon them.

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Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the  Lord your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.


For he tells Moses, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.   ,


I will dwell among the Israelites and not abandon my people Israel.’


May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us


See to it that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they rejected him who warned them on earth, even less will we if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven.


Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.


Since I called out and you refused, extended my hand and no one paid attention,


Furthermore, you didn’t bring us to a land flowing with milk and honey or give us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men?  We will not come! ’


But Moses responded, ‘Why are you going against the Lord’s command? It won’t succeed.


The Lord said to Moses, ‘How long will these people despise me? How long will they not trust in me despite all the signs I have performed among them?


However, in your abundant compassion, you did not destroy them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and compassionate God.


‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to bring on this city #– #and on all its cities #– #every disaster that I spoke against it, for they have become obstinate, not obeying my words.” ’


She has rebelled against my ordinances with more wickedness than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that surround her. For her people have rejected my ordinances and have not walked in my statutes.


Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord our God, though we have rebelled against him


The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath his feet.


The Lord also said to Moses, ‘I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked  people.


Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them so as to destroy them and break my covenant with them, since I am the Lord their God.


The Lord will not abandon his people,  because of his great name and because he has determined to make you his own people.


He also rebelled against  King Nebuchadnezzar who had made him swear allegiance by God. He became obstinate  , and hardened his heart against returning to the Lord, the God of Israel.


Though we are slaves,  our God has not abandoned us in our slavery. He has extended grace to us in the presence of the Persian kings,  giving us relief, so that we can rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins,  to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.


However, my people wouldn’t listen to me or pay attention but became obstinate;  they did more evil than their ancestors.


Yet my people have forgotten me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways on the ancient roads, and make them walk on new paths, not the raised road.





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