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Nehemiah 9:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took possession of well-supplied houses, cisterns cut out of rock, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate, were filled, became prosperous, and delighted in your great goodness.

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Then  Jeshurun  , became fat and rebelled – you became fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.


When they were in their kingdom, with your abundant goodness that you gave them, and in the spacious and fertile land you set before them, they would not serve you or turn from their wicked ways.


All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.


Afterwards, the people of Israel will return  and seek the Lord their God and David their king.  They will come with awe to the Lord   and to his goodness in the last days.


On that day I swore  to them that I would bring them out  of the land of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey,  the most beautiful of all lands.


On the fifteenth day  he sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went to their homes  rejoicing and with happy hearts for all the goodness that the Lord had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.


He made him ride on the heights of the land and eat the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from flinty rock,


Or do you despise the riches of his kindness,  restraint,  and patience,  not recognising  that God’s kindness  is intended to lead you to repentance?


When they had pasture, they became satisfied; they were satisfied, and their hearts became proud. Therefore they forgot me.


I will refresh the priests with an abundance,  , and my people will be satisfied with my goodness. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


Make the minds  of these people dull; deafen their ears and blind their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their minds, turn back, and be healed.


Otherwise, I might have too much and deny you,  saying, ‘Who is the  Lord? ’ or I might have nothing and steal, profaning  the name of my God.


I will make known the  Lord’s faithful love and the Lord’s praiseworthy acts, because of all the  Lord has done for us – even the many good things he has done for the house of Israel, which he did for them based on his compassion and the abundance of his faithful love.


During a time of peace,  he will come into the richest parts of the province  and do what his fathers and predecessors never did. He will lavish plunder, loot, and wealth on his followers, and he will make plans against fortified cities, but only for a time.


curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, rams from Bashan,  and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat; you drank wine from the finest grapes.


You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you.  In order to anger me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images,  but you have flung me behind your back.


I brought you to a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but after you entered, you defiled my land; you made my inheritance   detestable.


They entered and possessed it, but they did not obey you or live according to your instructions.  They failed to perform all you commanded them to do,  and so you have brought all this disaster on them.





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