(A)Remember the former things of old,
For I am God, and (B)there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,

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Remember the former things,(A) those of long ago;(B)
    I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is none like me.(C)

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Behold, the former things have come to pass,
And new things I declare;
Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

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See, the former things(A) have taken place,
    and new things I declare;
before they spring into being
    I announce(B) them to you.”

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He has made His wonderful works to be remembered;
(A)The Lord is gracious and full of compassion.

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He has caused his wonders to be remembered;
    the Lord is gracious and compassionate.(A)

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“To(A) whom will you liken Me, and make Me equal
And compare Me, that we should be alike?

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“With whom will you compare me or count me equal?
    To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?(A)

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“Remember(A) the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations.
(B)Ask your father, and he will show you;
Your elders, and they will tell you:

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Remember the days of old;(A)
    consider the generations long past.(B)
Ask your father and he will tell you,
    your elders, and they will explain to you.(C)

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21 Tell and bring forth your case;
Yes, let them take counsel together.
(A)Who has declared this from ancient time?
Who has told it from that time?
Have not I, the Lord?
(B)And there is no other God besides Me,
A just God and a Savior;
There is none besides Me.

22 “Look to Me, and be saved,
(C)All you ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.

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21 Declare what is to be, present it—
    let them take counsel together.
Who foretold(A) this long ago,
    who declared it from the distant past?(B)
Was it not I, the Lord?
    And there is no God apart from me,(C)
a righteous God(D) and a Savior;(E)
    there is none but me.

22 “Turn(F) to me and be saved,(G)
    all you ends of the earth;(H)
    for I am God, and there is no other.(I)

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26 There is (A)no one like the God of (B)Jeshurun,
(C)Who rides the heavens to help you,
And in His excellency on the clouds.

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26 “There is no one like the God of Jeshurun,(A)
    who rides(B) across the heavens to help you(C)
    and on the clouds(D) in his majesty.(E)

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18 For thus says the Lord,
(A)Who created the heavens,
Who is God,
Who formed the earth and made it,
Who has established it,
Who did not create it [a]in vain,
Who formed it to be (B)inhabited:
(C)“I am the Lord, and there is no other.

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  1. Isaiah 45:18 Or empty, a waste

18 For this is what the Lord says—
he who created the heavens,
    he is God;
he who fashioned and made the earth,(A)
    he founded it;
he did not create it to be empty,(B)
    but formed it to be inhabited(C)
he says:
“I am the Lord,
    and there is no other.(D)

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The Glorious New Creation

17 “For behold, I create (A)new heavens and a new earth;
And the former shall not be remembered or [a]come to mind.

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  1. Isaiah 65:17 Lit. come upon the heart

New Heavens and a New Earth

17 “See, I will create
    new heavens and a new earth.(A)
The former things will not be remembered,(B)
    nor will they come to mind.

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I (A)am the Lord, and (B)there is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
(C)I will gird you, though you have not known Me,
(D)That they may (E)know from the rising of the sun to its setting
That there is none besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other;

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I am the Lord, and there is no other;(A)
    apart from me there is no God.(B)
I will strengthen you,(C)
    though you have not acknowledged me,
so that from the rising of the sun
    to the place of its setting(D)
people may know(E) there is none besides me.(F)
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.

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“You are the Lord God,
Who chose (A)Abram,
And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans,
And gave him the name (B)Abraham;
You found his heart (C)faithful before You,
And made a (D)covenant with him
To give the land of the Canaanites,
The Hittites, the Amorites,
The Perizzites, the Jebusites,
And the Girgashites—
To give it to his descendants.
You (E)have performed Your words,
For You are righteous.

“You(F) saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,
And (G)heard their cry by the Red Sea.
10 You (H)showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,
Against all his servants,
And against all the people of his land.
For You knew that they (I)acted [a]proudly against them.
So You (J)made a name for Yourself, as it is this day.
11 (K)And You divided the sea before them,
So that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land;
And their persecutors You threw into the deep,
(L)As a stone into the mighty waters.
12 Moreover You (M)led them by day with a cloudy pillar,
And by night with a pillar of fire,
To give them light on the road
Which they should travel.

13 “You(N) came down also on Mount Sinai,
And spoke with them from heaven,
And gave them (O)just ordinances and true laws,
Good statutes and commandments.
14 You made known to them Your (P)holy Sabbath,
And commanded them precepts, statutes and laws,
By the hand of Moses Your servant.
15 You (Q)gave them bread from heaven for their hunger,
And (R)brought them water out of the rock for their thirst,
And told them to (S)go in to possess the land
Which You had [b]sworn to give them.

16 “But(T) they and our fathers acted [c]proudly,
(U)Hardened[d] their necks,
And did not heed Your commandments.
17 They refused to obey,
And (V)they were not mindful of Your wonders
That You did among them.
But they hardened their necks,
And [e]in their rebellion
They appointed (W)a leader
To return to their bondage.
But You are God,
Ready to pardon,
(X)Gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger,
Abundant in kindness,
And did not forsake them.

18 “Even (Y)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,
19 Yet in Your (Z)manifold mercies
You did not forsake them in the wilderness.
The (AA)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.
20 You also gave Your (AB)good Spirit to instruct them,
And did not withhold Your (AC)manna from their mouth,
And gave them (AD)water for their thirst.
21 (AE)Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness;
They lacked nothing;
Their (AF)clothes did not wear out
And their feet did not swell.

22 “Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations,
And divided them into [f]districts.
So they took possession of the land of (AG)Sihon,
[g]The land of the king of Heshbon,
And the land of Og king of Bashan.
23 You also multiplied (AH)their children as the stars of heaven,
And brought them into the land
Which You had told their fathers
To go in and possess.
24 So (AI)the [h]people went in
And possessed the land;
(AJ)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.
25 And they took strong cities and a (AK)rich land,
And possessed (AL)houses full of all goods,
Cisterns already dug, vineyards, olive groves,
And [i]fruit trees in abundance.
So they ate and were filled and (AM)grew fat,
And delighted themselves in Your great (AN)goodness.

26 “Nevertheless they (AO)were disobedient
And rebelled against You,
(AP)Cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your (AQ)prophets, who [j]testified against them
To turn them to Yourself;
And they worked great provocations.
27 (AR)Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies,
Who oppressed them;
And in the time of their trouble,
When they cried to You,
You (AS)heard from heaven;
And according to Your abundant mercies
(AT)You gave them deliverers who saved them
From the hand of their enemies.

28 “But after they had rest,
(AU)They again did evil before You.
Therefore You left them in the hand of their enemies,
So that they had dominion over them;
Yet when they returned and cried out to You,
You heard from heaven;
And (AV)many times You delivered them according to Your mercies,
29 And [k]testified against them,
That You might bring them back to Your law.
Yet they acted [l]proudly,
And did not heed Your commandments,
But sinned against Your judgments,
(AW)‘Which if a man does, he shall live by them.’
And they shrugged their shoulders,
[m]Stiffened their necks,
And would not hear.
30 Yet for many years You had patience with them,
And [n]testified (AX)against them by Your Spirit (AY)in Your prophets.
Yet they would not listen;
(AZ)Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
31 Nevertheless in Your great mercy
(BA)You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them;
For You are God, gracious and merciful.

32 “Now therefore, our God,
The great, the (BB)mighty, and awesome God,
Who keeps covenant and mercy:
Do not let all the [o]trouble seem small before You
That has come upon us,
Our kings and our princes,
Our priests and our prophets,
Our fathers and on all Your people,
(BC)From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
33 However (BD)You are just in all that has befallen us;
For You have dealt faithfully,
But (BE)we have done wickedly.
34 Neither our kings nor our princes,
Our priests nor our fathers,
Have kept Your law,
Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies,
With which You testified against them.
35 For they have (BF)not served You in their kingdom,
Or in the many good things that You gave them,
Or in the large and rich land which You set before them;
Nor did they turn from their wicked works.

36 “Here (BG)we are, servants today!
And the land that You gave to our fathers,
To eat its fruit and its bounty,
Here we are, servants in it!
37 And (BH)it yields much increase to the kings
You have set over us,
Because of our sins;
Also they have (BI)dominion over our bodies and our cattle
At their pleasure;
And we are in great distress.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:10 presumptuously or insolently
  2. Nehemiah 9:15 Lit. raised Your hand to
  3. Nehemiah 9:16 presumptuously
  4. Nehemiah 9:16 Stiffened their necks, became stubborn
  5. Nehemiah 9:17 So with MT, Vg.; LXX in Egypt
  6. Nehemiah 9:22 Lit. corners
  7. Nehemiah 9:22 So with MT, Vg.; LXX omits The land of
  8. Nehemiah 9:24 Lit. sons
  9. Nehemiah 9:25 Lit. trees for eating
  10. Nehemiah 9:26 admonished or warned them
  11. Nehemiah 9:29 admonished them
  12. Nehemiah 9:29 presumptuously
  13. Nehemiah 9:29 Became stubborn
  14. Nehemiah 9:30 admonished or warned them
  15. Nehemiah 9:32 hardship

“You are the Lord God, who chose Abram(A) and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans(B) and named him Abraham.(C) You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites.(D) You have kept your promise(E) because you are righteous.(F)

“You saw the suffering of our ancestors in Egypt;(G) you heard their cry at the Red Sea.[a](H) 10 You sent signs(I) and wonders(J) against Pharaoh, against all his officials and all the people of his land, for you knew how arrogantly the Egyptians treated them. You made a name(K) for yourself,(L) which remains to this day. 11 You divided the sea before them,(M) so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths,(N) like a stone into mighty waters.(O) 12 By day(P) you led(Q) them with a pillar of cloud,(R) and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.

13 “You came down on Mount Sinai;(S) you spoke(T) to them from heaven.(U) You gave them regulations and laws that are just(V) and right, and decrees and commands that are good.(W) 14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath(X) and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses. 15 In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven(Y) and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock;(Z) you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand(AA) to give them.(AB)

16 “But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked,(AC) and they did not obey your commands.(AD) 17 They refused to listen and failed to remember(AE) the miracles(AF) you performed among them. They became stiff-necked(AG) and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery.(AH) But you are a forgiving God,(AI) gracious and compassionate,(AJ) slow to anger(AK) and abounding in love.(AL) Therefore you did not desert them,(AM) 18 even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf(AN) and said, ‘This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,’ or when they committed awful blasphemies.(AO)

19 “Because of your great compassion you did not abandon(AP) them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud(AQ) did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take. 20 You gave your good Spirit(AR) to instruct(AS) them. You did not withhold your manna(AT) from their mouths, and you gave them water(AU) for their thirst. 21 For forty years(AV) you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing,(AW) their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.(AX)

22 “You gave them kingdoms and nations, allotting to them even the remotest frontiers. They took over the country of Sihon[b](AY) king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan.(AZ) 23 You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky,(BA) and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess. 24 Their children went in and took possession of the land.(BB) You subdued(BC) before them the Canaanites, who lived in the land; you gave the Canaanites into their hands, along with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with them as they pleased. 25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land;(BD) they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things,(BE) wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished;(BF) they reveled in your great goodness.(BG)

26 “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law.(BH) They killed(BI) your prophets,(BJ) who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.(BK) 27 So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies,(BL) who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion(BM) you gave them deliverers,(BN) who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

28 “But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight.(BO) 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(BP) you delivered them(BQ) time after time.

29 “You warned(BR) them in order to turn them back to your law, but they became arrogant(BS) and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, of which you said, ‘The person who obeys them will live by them.’(BT) Stubbornly they turned their backs(BU) on you, became stiff-necked(BV) and refused to listen.(BW) 30 For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets.(BX) Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.(BY) 31 But in your great mercy you did not put an end(BZ) to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful(CA) God.

32 “Now therefore, our God, the great God, mighty(CB) and awesome,(CC) who keeps his covenant of love,(CD) do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes—the hardship(CE) 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. 33 In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous;(CF) you have acted faithfully, while we acted wickedly.(CG) 34 Our kings,(CH) our leaders, our priests and our ancestors(CI) did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the statutes you warned them to keep. 35 Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness(CJ) to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you(CK) or turn from their evil ways.

36 “But see, we are slaves(CL) today, slaves in the land you gave our ancestors so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces. 37 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.(CM)

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  1. Nehemiah 9:9 Or the Sea of Reeds
  2. Nehemiah 9:22 One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts Sihon, that is, the country of the

“Therefore, behold, (A)the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country (B)and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ And they shall dwell in their own (C)land.”

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“So then, the days are coming,”(A) declares the Lord, “when people will no longer say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’(B) but they will say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ Then they will live in their own land.”(C)

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(A)Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land. O Lord, (B)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

“O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. (C)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him. 10 We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets. 11 Yes, (D)all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the (E)Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. 12 And He has (F)confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; (G)for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.

13 (H)“As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; (I)yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth. 14 Therefore the Lord has (J)kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for (K)the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice. 15 And now, O Lord our God, (L)who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself (M)a name, as it is this day—we have sinned, we have done wickedly!

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We have not listened(A) to your servants the prophets,(B) who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors,(C) and to all the people of the land.

“Lord, you are righteous,(D) but this day we are covered with shame(E)—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered(F) us because of our unfaithfulness(G) to you.(H) We and our kings, our princes and our ancestors are covered with shame, Lord, because we have sinned against you.(I) The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving,(J) even though we have rebelled against him;(K) 10 we have not obeyed the Lord our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets.(L) 11 All Israel has transgressed(M) your law(N) and turned away, refusing to obey you.

“Therefore the curses(O) and sworn judgments(P) written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned(Q) against you. 12 You have fulfilled(R) the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster.(S) Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like(T) what has been done to Jerusalem.(U) 13 Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord(V) our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth.(W) 14 The Lord did not hesitate to bring the disaster(X) on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in everything he does;(Y) yet we have not obeyed him.(Z)

15 “Now, Lord our God, who brought your people out of Egypt with a mighty hand(AA) and who made for yourself a name(AB) that endures to this day, we have sinned, we have done wrong.

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