Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Nehemiah 9:33 - Revised Standard Version Yet thou hast been just in all that has come upon us, for thou hast dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition However, You are just in all that has come upon us; for You have dealt faithfully, but we have done wickedly; American Standard Version (1901) Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly; Common English Bible You have been just in all that has happened to us; you have acted faithfully, and we have done wrong. Catholic Public Domain Version For you are just, concerning all things that have overwhelmed us. For you have done truth, but we have acted impiously. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly. |
Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
O Lord the God of Israel, thou art just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as at this day. Behold, we are before thee in our guilt, for none can stand before thee because of this.”
our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law or heeded thy commandments and thy warnings which thou didst give them.
and thou didst find his heart faithful before thee, and didst make with him the covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite; and thou hast fulfilled thy promise, for thou art righteous.
and he sings before men, and says: ‘I sinned, and perverted what was right, and it was not requited to me.
For he has not appointed a time for any man to go before God in judgment.
Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people have sinned a great sin; they have made for themselves gods of gold.
Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I complain to thee; yet I would plead my case before thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
because of the wickedness which they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to burn incense and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.
“The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and behold my suffering; my maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.
and you shall know that I am the Lord; for you have not walked in my statutes, nor executed my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.”