Nehemiah 9:17

New English Translation

They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,

Cross References

1 Kings 6:13

I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”

1 Kings 8:57

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

2 Chronicles 36:13

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return to the Lord God of Israel.

Ezra 9:9

Although we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our servitude. He has extended kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, in that he has revived us to restore the temple of our God and to raise up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 9:31

However, due to your abundant mercy you did not do away with them altogether; you did not abandon them. For you are a merciful and compassionate God.

Psalm 106:13

They quickly forgot what he had done; they did not wait for his instructions.

Psalm 106:7

Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.

Psalm 130:4

But you are willing to forgive, so that you might be honored.

Psalm 78:10

They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.

Psalm 78:11

They forgot what he had done, the amazing things he had shown them.

Psalm 78:38

Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness.

Psalm 86:5

Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.

Exodus 32:9

Then the Lord said to Moses: “I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

Proverbs 1:24

However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,

Jeremiah 18:15

Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols! This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level.

Jeremiah 19:15

“The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘I will soon bring on this city and all the towns surrounding it all the disaster I threatened to do to it. I will do so because they have stubbornly refused to pay any attention to what I have said!’”

Jeremiah 7:26

But your ancestors did not listen to me nor pay attention to me. They became obstinate and were more wicked than even their own forefathers.’”

Ezekiel 5:6

Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries around her. Indeed, they have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

Daniel 9:9

Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.

Joel 2:13

Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love – often relenting from calamitous punishment.

Leviticus 26:44

In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.

Nahum 1:3

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will certainly not allow the wicked to go unpunished. He marches out in the whirlwind and the raging storm; dark storm clouds billow like dust under his feet.

Numbers 14:11

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

Numbers 14:41

But Moses said, “Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the Lord? It will not succeed!

Numbers 16:14

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”

Acts 7:39

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

Romans 9:15

For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Hebrews 12:25

Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

1 Samuel 12:22

The Lord will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. The Lord was pleased to make you his own people.