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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="pm"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NEH.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;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. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NEH.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NEH.9.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NEH.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion you delivered them time after time.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NEH.9.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NEH.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;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, &#8216;The person who obeys them will live by them.&#8217; Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NEH.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NEH.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But in your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NEH.9.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NEH.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now therefore, our God, the great God, mighty and awesome, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes&#8212;the hardship that has come on us, on our kings and leaders, on our priests and prophets, on our ancestors and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NEH.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous; you have acted faithfully, while we acted wickedly. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NEH.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Our kings, our leaders, our priests and our ancestors did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the statutes you warned them to keep. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NEH.9.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you or turn from their evil ways.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NEH.9.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NEH.9.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;But see, we are slaves today, slaves in the land you gave our ancestors so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NEH.9.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress.</span></span></div>
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