Nehemiah 9:13-22

New American Standard Bible

¹³ Then ^(A)You came down on Mount Sinai,
And ^(B)spoke with them from heaven;
You gave them ^(C)just ordinances and true laws,
Good statutes and commandments.
¹⁴ So You made known to them ^(D)Your holy Sabbath,
And gave them commandments, statutes, and law,
Through Your servant Moses.
¹⁵ You ^(E)provided bread from heaven for them for their hunger,
You ^(F)brought out water from a rock for them for their thirst,
And You ^(G)told them to enter in order to take possession of
The land which You ^[a]swore to give them.

¹⁶ “But they, our fathers, ^(H)acted arrogantly;
They ^[b](I)became stubborn and would not listen to Your commandments.
¹⁷ They refused to listen,
And ^(J)did not remember Your wondrous deeds which You performed among them;
So they became stubborn and ^(K)appointed a leader to return to their slavery in ^[c]Egypt.
But You are a God ^(L)of forgiveness,
Gracious and compassionate,
Slow to anger and abounding in ^[d]mercy;
And You did not abandon them.
¹⁸ Even when they ^(M)made for themselves
A calf of cast metal
And said, ‘This is your ^[e]god
Who brought you up from Egypt,’
And committed great blasphemies,
^19 (N)You, in Your great compassion,
Did not abandon them in the wilderness;
^(O)The pillar of cloud did not leave them by day,
To guide them on their way,
Nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they were to go.
²⁰ Instead, ^(P)You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,
You did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,
And You gave them water for their thirst.
²¹ Indeed, for ^(Q)forty years You provided for them in the wilderness and they were not lacking;
Their clothes did not wear out, nor did their feet swell up.
²² You also gave them kingdoms and peoples,
And allotted them to them as a ^[f]boundary.
^(R)They took possession of the land of Sihon ^[g]the king of Heshbon
And the land of Og the king of Bashan.