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And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:36 ESV

Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves.

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:35 ESV

Even in their own kingdom, and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land that you set before them, they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works.

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:34 ESV

Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:33 ESV

Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.

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"Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:31 ESV

Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:30 ESV

Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:29 ESV

And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:27 ESV

Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:26 ESV

"Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:25 ESV

And they captured fortified cities and a rich land, and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:21 ESV

Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

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highlighted Nehemiah 9:20 ESV

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

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