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Nehemiah · read by Joshua Harris
31 verses, in order. Only the verses Joshua read aloud are shown.
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Nehemiah 9
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On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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While they stood in their places, they read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day, and they spent another quarter of the day in confession and worship of the LORD their God.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, 'This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,' and when they committed terrible blasphemies,Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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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.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness— here we are as slaves!Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin
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In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests."Read from ESV · The People Confess Their Sin