Nehemiah 9

1AND ON DAY TWENTY AND FOUR OF THE MONTH <THE> THIS THEY GATHERED [THE] PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WITH FASTING AND IN SACKCLOTH<S> AND EARTH [WAS] ON THEM

2AND THEY SEPARATED THEMSELVES [THE] OFFSPRING OF ISRAEL FROM ALL SONS OF FOREIGNNESS AND THEY STOOD AND THEY CONFESSED ON SINS THEIR AND [THE] INIQUITIES OF ANCESTORS THEIR

3AND THEY STOOD AT PLACE THEIR AND THEY READ ALOUD IN [THE] SCROLL OF [THE] LAW OF YAHWEH GOD THEIR [THE] FOURTH OF THE DAY AND A FOURTH [THEY WERE] CONFESSING AND [THEY WERE] BOWING DOWN TO YAHWEH GOD THEIR

4AND HE STOOD ON [THE] PLATFORM OF THE LEVITES JESHUA AND BANI KADMIEL SHEBANIAH BUNNI SHEREBIAH BANI KENANI AND THEY CRIED OUT WITH A VOICE GREAT TO YAHWEH GOD THEIR

5AND THEY SAID THE LEVITES JESHUA AND KADMIEL BANI HASHABNEIAH SHEREBIAH HODIAH SHEBANIAH PETHAHIAH ARISE BLESS <OBJ.> YAHWEH GOD YOUR FROM <THE> ANTIQUITY UNTIL <THE> PERPETUITY AND MAY PEOPLE BLESS [THE] NAME OF GLORY YOUR AND [MAY IT] BE EXALTED ABOVE ALL BLESSING AND PRAISE

6YOU HE [ARE] YAHWEH TO ALONE YOU YOU YOU MADE <OBJ.> THE HEAVENS [THE] HEAVENS OF THE HEAVENS AND ALL HOST THEIR THE EARTH AND ALL THAT [IS] ON IT THE SEAS AND ALL THAT [IS] IN THEM AND YOU [ARE] PRESERVING ALIVE <OBJ.> ALL OF THEM AND [THE] HOST OF THE HEAVENS TO YOU [ARE] BOWING DOWN

7YOU HE [ARE] YAHWEH <THE> GOD WHO YOU CHOSE <IN> ABRAM AND YOU BROUGHT OUT HIM FROM UR OF [THE] CHALDEANS AND YOU MADE NAME HIS ABRAHAM

8AND YOU FOUND <OBJ.> HEART HIS FAITHFUL <TO> BEFORE YOU AND YOU MADE WITH HIM THE COVENANT TO GIVE <OBJ.> [THE] LAND OF THE CANAANITE[S] THE HITTITE[S] THE AMORITE[S] AND THE PERIZZITE[S] AND THE JEBUSITE[S] AND THE GIRGASHITE[S] TO GIVE TO OFFSPRING HIS AND YOU FULFILLED <OBJ.> WORDS YOUR FOR [ARE] RIGHTEOUS YOU

9AND YOU SAW <OBJ.> [THE] AFFLICTION OF ANCESTORS OUR IN EGYPT AND <OBJ.> OUTCRY THEIR YOU HEARD AT [THE] SEA OF REED[S]

10AND YOU GAVE SIGNS AND WONDERS ON PHARAOH AND ON ALL SERVANTS HIS AND ON ALL [THE] PEOPLE OF LAND HIS FOR YOU KNEW THAT THEY HAD ACTED PRESUMPTUOUSLY ON THEM AND YOU MADE FOR YOURSELF A NAME AS THE DAY <THE> THIS

11AND THE SEA YOU SPLIT OPEN <TO> BEFORE THEM AND THEY PASSED IN [THE] MIDDLE OF THE SEA ON THE DRY GROUND AND <OBJ.> PURSUERS THEIR YOU THREW IN [THE] DEPTHS LIKE A STONE IN WATERS MIGHTY

12AND IN A PILLAR OF CLOUD YOU LED THEM BY DAY AND IN A PILLAR OF FIRE NIGHT TO LIGHT UP FOR THEM <OBJ.> THE WAY WHICH THEY WALKED IN IT

13AND ON [THE] MOUNTAIN OF SINAI YOU CAME DOWN AND YOU SPOKE WITH THEM FROM HEAVEN AND YOU GAVE TO <THE> THEM JUDGMENTS UPRIGHT AND LAWS OF FAITHFULNESS STATUTES AND COMMANDMENTS GOOD

14AND <OBJ.> [THE] SABBATH OF HOLINESS YOUR YOU MADE KNOWN TO THEM AND COMMANDMENTS AND STATUTES AND [THE] LAW YOU COMMANDED TO THEM BY [THE] HAND OF MOSES SERVANT YOUR

15AND BREAD FROM HEAVEN YOU GAVE TO THEM FOR HUNGER THEIR AND WATER FROM A ROCK YOU BROUGHT FORTH FOR THEM FOR THIRST THEIR AND YOU SAID TO THEM TO GO TO TAKE POSSESSION OF <OBJ.> THE LAND WHICH YOU HAD LIFTED <OBJ.> HAND YOUR TO GIVE TO THEM

16AND THEY AND ANCESTORS OUR THEY ACTED PRESUMPTUOUSLY AND THEY STIFFENED <OBJ.> NECK THEIR AND NOT THEY LISTENED TO COMMANDMENTS YOUR

17AND THEY REFUSED TO LISTEN AND NOT THEY REMEMBERED WONDERS YOUR WHICH YOU HAD DONE WITH THEM AND THEY STIFFENED <OBJ.> NECK THEIR AND THEY APPOINTED A LEADER TO RETURN TO SERVITUDE THEIR IN REBELLION THEIR AND YOU [ARE] A GOD FORGIVENESS<ES> GRACIOUS AND COMPASSIONATE LONG OF ANGER<S> AND GREAT OF COVENANT LOYALTY AND NOT YOU ABANDONED THEM

18EVEN FOR THEY HAD MADE FOR THEMSELVES A CALF OF MOLTEN METAL AND THEY HAD SAID THIS [IS] GOD YOUR WHO HE BROUGHT UP YOU FROM EGYPT AND THEY HAD DONE BLASPHEMIES GREAT

19AND YOU IN COMPASSION<S> YOUR <THE> GREAT NOT YOU ABANDONED THEM IN THE WILDERNESS <OBJ.> [THE] PILLAR OF <THE> CLOUD NOT IT DEPARTED FROM OVER <THE> THEM IN DAYTIME THEIR TO LEAD THEM IN THE WAY AND <OBJ.> [THE] PILLAR OF <THE> FIRE AT NIGHT TO LIGHT UP FOR THEM AND <OBJ.> THE WAY WHICH THEY WALKED IN IT

20AND SPIRIT YOUR <THE> GOOD YOU GAVE TO INSTRUCT THEM AND MANNA YOUR NOT YOU WITHHELD FROM MOUTH THEIR AND WATER YOU GAVE TO THEM FOR THIRST THEIR

21AND FORTY YEAR[S] YOU SUSTAINED THEM IN THE WILDERNESS NOT THEY WERE LACKING CLOTHES THEIR NOT THEY WORE OUT AND FEET THEIR NOT THEY BECAME SWOLLEN

22AND YOU GAVE TO THEM KINGDOMS AND PEOPLES AND YOU APPORTIONED THEM TO A CORNER AND THEY TOOK POSSESSION OF <OBJ.> [THE] LAND OF SIHON AND <OBJ.> [THE] LAND OF [THE] KING OF HESHBON AND <OBJ.> [THE] LAND OF OG [THE] KING OF <THE> BASHAN

23AND CHILDREN THEIR YOU INCREASED LIKE [THE] STARS OF THE HEAVENS AND YOU BROUGHT THEM INTO THE LAND WHICH YOU HAD SAID TO ANCESTORS THEIR TO GO TO TAKE POSSESSION OF

24AND THEY WENT THE CHILDREN AND THEY TOOK POSSESSION OF <OBJ.> THE LAND AND YOU SUBDUED <TO> BEFORE THEM <OBJ.> [THE] INHABITANTS OF THE LAND THE CANAANITES AND YOU GAVE THEM IN HAND THEIR AND <OBJ.> KINGS THEIR AND <OBJ.> [THE] PEOPLES OF THE LAND TO DO WITH THEM ACCORDING TO WILL THEIR

25AND THEY CAPTURED CITIES FORTIFIED AND GROUND FERTILE AND THEY TOOK POSSESSION OF HOUSES FULL EVERY GOOD THING WELLS DUG OUT VINEYARDS AND OLIVE TREES AND TREE[S] OF FOOD TO ABUNDANCE AND THEY ATE AND THEY WERE SATISFIED AND THEY GREW FAT AND THEY LUXURIATED IN GOODNESS YOUR <THE> GREAT

26AND THEY WERE DISOBEDIENT AND THEY REBELLED AGAINST YOU AND THEY THREW <OBJ.> LAW YOUR BEHIND BACK THEIR AND <OBJ.> PROPHETS YOUR THEY KILLED WHO THEY HAD WARNED <IN> THEM TO BRING BACK THEM TO YOU AND THEY DID BLASPHEMIES GREAT

27AND YOU GAVE THEM IN [THE] HAND OF OPPONENTS THEIR AND THEY CAUSED DISTRESS TO THEM AND IN [THE] TIME OF DISTRESS THEIR THEY CRIED OUT TO YOU AND YOU FROM HEAVEN YOU HEARD AND ACCORDING TO COMPASSION<S> YOUR <THE> GREAT YOU GAVE TO THEM DELIVERERS AND THEY DELIVERED THEM FROM [THE] HAND OF OPPONENTS THEIR

28AND JUST AS WAS REST TO THEM THEY RETURNED TO DO EVIL <TO> BEFORE YOU AND YOU ABANDONED THEM IN [THE] HAND OF ENEMIES THEIR AND THEY RULED OVER THEM AND THEY RETURNED AND THEY CRIED OUT TO YOU AND YOU FROM HEAVEN YOU HEARD AND YOU RESCUED THEM ACCORDING TO COMPASSION<S> YOUR MANY TIMES

29AND YOU WARNED <IN> THEM TO BRING BACK THEM TO LAW YOUR AND THEY THEY ACTED PRESUMPTUOUSLY AND NOT THEY LISTENED TO COMMANDMENTS YOUR AND IN JUDGMENTS YOUR THEY SINNED IN THEM WHICH HE WILL DO ANYONE AND HE WILL LIVE BY THEM AND THEY GAVE A SHOULDER STUBBORN AND NECK THEIR THEY STIFFENED AND NOT THEY LISTENED

30AND YOU PROLONGED TOWARDS THEM YEARS MANY AND YOU WARNED <IN> THEM BY SPIRIT YOUR BY [THE] HAND OF PROPHETS YOUR AND NOT THEY GAVE EAR AND YOU GAVE THEM IN [THE] HAND OF [THE] PEOPLES OF THE LANDS

31AND IN COMPASSION<S> YOUR <THE> GREAT NOT YOU MADE THEM COMPLETE DESTRUCTION AND NOT YOU ABANDONED THEM FOR [ARE] A GOD GRACIOUS AND COMPASSIONATE YOU

32AND THEREFORE O GOD OUR <THE> GOD <THE> GREAT <THE> MIGHTY AND <THE> AWESOME [THE] KEEPER OF THE COVENANT AND <THE> COVENANT LOYALTY MAY NOT IT BE SMALL <TO> BEFORE YOU <OBJ.> ALL THE HARDSHIP WHICH IT HAS COME UPON US TO KINGS OUR TO LEADERS OUR AND TO PRIESTS OUR AND TO PROPHETS OUR AND TO ANCESTORS OUR AND TO ALL PEOPLE YOUR SINCE [THE] DAYS OF [THE] KINGS OF ASSYRIA UNTIL THE DAY <THE> THIS

33AND YOU [ARE] RIGHTEOUS ON EVERY <THE> [THING WHICH] HAS COME ON US FOR FAITHFULNESS YOU HAVE ACTED AND WE WE HAVE ACTED WICKEDLY

34AND <OBJ.> KINGS OUR LEADERS OUR PRIESTS OUR AND ANCESTORS OUR NOT THEY DID LAW YOUR AND NOT THEY PAID ATTENTION TO COMMANDMENTS YOUR AND TO TESTIMONIES YOUR WHICH YOU ADMONISHED <IN> THEM

35AND THEY IN OWN KINGDOM THEIR AND IN GOODNESS YOUR <THE> GREAT WHICH YOU HAD GIVEN TO THEM AND IN [THE] LAND <THE> BROAD AND <THE> FERTILE WHICH YOU HAD SET <TO> BEFORE THEM NOT THEY SERVED YOU AND NOT THEY TURNED BACK FROM DEEDS THEIR <THE> EVIL

36HERE! WE THIS DAY [ARE] SLAVES AND THE LAND WHICH YOU GAVE TO ANCESTORS OUR TO EAT <OBJ.> FRUIT ITS AND <OBJ.> GOOD THING[S] ITS HERE! WE [ARE] SLAVES ON IT

37AND PRODUCE ITS [IS] INCREASING FOR THE KINGS WHOM YOU HAVE APPOINTED OVER US IN SINS OUR AND OVER BODIES OUR [THEY ARE] RULING AND OVER CATTLE OUR ACCORDING TO WILL THEIR AND [ARE] IN DISTRESS GREAT WE

38AND IN ALL THIS WE [ARE] MAKING A TRUSTWORTHY ARRANGEMENT AND WRITING AND [ARE] ON THE SEALED [DOCUMENT] LEADERS OUR LEVITES OUR PRIESTS OUR