Nehemiah 9:18-25

New King James Version

¹⁸“Even ^(A)when they made a molded calf for themselves,
And said, ‘This is your god
That brought you up out of Egypt,’
And worked great provocations,
¹⁹Yet in Your ^(B)manifold mercies
You did not forsake them in the wilderness.
The ^(C)pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day,
To lead them on the road;
Nor the pillar of fire by night,
To show them light,
And the way they should go.
²⁰You also gave Your ^(D)good Spirit to instruct them,
And did not withhold Your ^(E)manna from their mouth,
And gave them ^(F)water for their thirst.
²¹^(G)Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness;
They lacked nothing;
Their ^(H)clothes did not wear out
And their feet did not swell.

²²“Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations,
And divided them into ^[a]districts.
So they took possession of the land of ^(I)Sihon,
^[b]The land of the king of Heshbon,
And the land of Og king of Bashan.
²³You also multiplied ^(J)their children as the stars of heaven,
And brought them into the land
Which You had told their fathers
To go in and possess.
²⁴So ^(K)the ^[c]people went in
And possessed the land;
^(L)You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land,
The Canaanites,
And gave them into their hands,
With their kings
And the people of the land,
That they might do with them as they wished.
²⁵And they took strong cities and a ^(M)rich land,
And possessed ^(N)houses full of all goods,
Cisterns already dug, vineyards, olive groves,
And ^[d]fruit trees in abundance.
So they ate and were filled and ^(O)grew fat,
And delighted themselves in Your great ^(P)goodness.