Berean Standard Bible

Nehemiah 9:12-19

12You 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.13You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.14You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.15In 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 that You had sworn to give them.

16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-neckedand did not obey Your commandments.17They refused to listen and failed to rememberthe wonders You performed among them.They stiffened their necks and appointed a leaderto return them to their bondage in Egypt.1But You are a forgiving God,gracious and compassionate,slow to anger and rich in loving devotion,and You did not forsake them.

18Even when they cast for themselvesan image of a calf and said,‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’and when they committed terrible blasphemies,19You in Your great compassiondid not forsake them in the wilderness.By day the pillar of cloud never turned awayfrom guiding them on their path;and by the night the pillar of fireilluminated the way they should go.

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1. Nehemiah 9:17 LXX and a few Hebrew manuscripts; MT to return them to their bondage in their rebellion ↩

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