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Nehemiah 9:30

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For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets. Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

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The king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes.

The Lord said through his servants the prophets:

Although the Lord sent prophets to the people to bring them back to him, and though they testified against them, they would not listen.

“But now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commands

You gave your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.

“But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law. They killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.

“You warned them in order to turn them back to your law, but they became arrogant and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, of which you said, ‘The person who obeys them will live by them.’ Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen.

But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.

For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.’

For it is: Do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; a little here, a little there.”

Who handed Jacob over to become loot, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned? For they would not follow his ways; they did not obey his law.

For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to destroy you completely.

Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy and he himself fought against them.

And though the Lord has sent all his servants the prophets to you again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention.

When the Lord could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today.

Again and again I sent my servants the prophets, who said, ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate!’

But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.

From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets.

The Lord has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his word, which he decreed long ago. He has overthrown you without pity, he has let the enemy gloat over you, he has exalted the horn of your foes.

We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land.

They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry.

“ ‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,’ says the Lord Almighty.

However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp.

for about forty years he endured their conduct in the wilderness;

They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your ancestors when he said through Isaiah the prophet:

“You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!

Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow.

For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.




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