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Nehemiah 9:19

New American Bible - revised edition

Yet in your great mercy you did not forsake them in the desert. By day the column of cloud did not cease to lead them on their journey, by night the column of fire did not cease to light the way they were to travel.

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With a column of cloud you led them by day, and by night with a column of fire, To light the way of their journey, the way in which they must travel.

Therefore you gave them into the power of their enemies, who oppressed them. But in the time of their oppression they would cry out to you, and you would hear them from heaven, And according to your great mercy give them saviors to deliver them from the power of their enemies.

Yet in your great mercy you did not completely destroy them and did not forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.

For their sake he remembered his covenant and relented in his abundant mercy,

Who led the people through the desert, for his mercy endures forever;

Whenever the cloud rose from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on their journey.

The cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and fire in the cloud at night, in the sight of the whole house of Israel in all the stages of their journey.

Remember these things, Jacob, Israel, for you are my servant! I formed you, a servant to me; Israel, you shall never be forgotten by me:

The Lord’s acts of mercy are not exhausted, his compassion is not spent;

but I acted for the sake of my name, so it would not be desecrated in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

But I looked on them with pity, not wanting to destroy them, so I did not put an end to them in the wilderness.

but I stayed my hand, acting for the sake of my name, lest it be desecrated in the eyes of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

Give ear, my God, and listen; open your eyes and look upon our desolate city upon which your name is invoked. When we present our petition before you, we rely not on our just deeds, but on your great mercy.

But to the Lord, our God, belong compassion and forgiveness, though we rebelled against him

For I, the Lord, do not change, and you, sons of Jacob, do not cease to be.

They will tell the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that you, Lord, are in the midst of this people; you, Lord, who directly revealed yourself! Your cloud stands over them, and you go before them by day in a column of cloud and by night in a column of fire.

Remember how for these forty years the Lord, your God, has directed all your journeying in the wilderness, so as to test you by affliction, to know what was in your heart: to keep his commandments, or not.

For the sake of his own great name the Lord will not abandon his people, since the Lord has decided to make you his people.




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