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Remember the things I have done in the past.
    For I alone am God!
    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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Everything I prophesied has come true,
    and now I will prophesy again.
I will tell you the future before it happens.”

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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 causes us to remember his wonderful works.
    How gracious and merciful is our Lord!

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

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“To whom will you compare me?
    Who is my equal?

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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 the days of long ago;
    think about the generations past.
Ask your father, and he will inform you.
    Inquire of 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 Consult together, argue your case.
    Get together and decide what to say.
Who made these things known so long ago?
    What idol ever told you they would happen?
Was it not I, the Lord?
    For there is no other God but me,
a righteous God and Savior.
    There is none but me.
22 Let all the world look to me for salvation!
    For I am God; 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 no one like the God of Israel.[a]
    He rides across the heavens to help you,
    across the skies in majestic splendor.

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Footnotes

  1. 33:26 Hebrew of Jeshurun, a term of endearment for Israel.

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 the Lord is God,
    and he created the heavens and earth
    and put everything in place.
He made the world to be lived in,
    not to be a place of empty chaos.
“I am the Lord,” he says,
    “and there is no other.

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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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17 “Look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth,
    and no one will even think about the old ones anymore.

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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 am the Lord;
    there is no other God.
I have equipped you for battle,
    though you don’t even know me,
so all the world from east to west
    will know there is no other God.
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 Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and renamed him Abraham. When he had proved himself faithful, you made a covenant with him to give him and his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites. And you have done what you promised, for you are always true to your word.

“You saw the misery of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their cries from beside the Red Sea.[a] 10 You displayed miraculous signs and wonders against Pharaoh, his officials, and all his people, for you knew how arrogantly they were treating our ancestors. You have a glorious reputation that has never been forgotten. 11 You divided the sea for your people so they could walk through on dry land! And then you hurled their enemies into the depths of the sea. They sank like stones beneath the mighty waters. 12 You led our ancestors by a pillar of cloud during the day and a pillar of fire at night so that they could find their way.

13 “You came down at Mount Sinai and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them regulations and instructions that were just, and decrees and commands that were good. 14 You instructed them concerning your holy Sabbath. And you commanded them, through Moses your servant, to obey all your commands, decrees, and instructions.

15 “You gave them bread from heaven when they were hungry and water from the rock when they were thirsty. You commanded them to go and take possession of the land you had sworn to give them.

16 “But our ancestors were proud and stubborn, and they paid no attention to your commands. 17 They refused to obey and did not remember the miracles you had done for them. Instead, they became stubborn and appointed a leader to take them back to their slavery in Egypt.[b] But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and rich in unfailing love. You did not abandon them, 18 even when they made an idol shaped like a calf and said, ‘This is your god who brought you out of Egypt!’ They committed terrible blasphemies.

19 “But in your great mercy you did not abandon them to die in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud still led them forward by day, and the pillar of fire showed them the way through the night. 20 You sent your good Spirit to instruct them, and you did not stop giving them manna from heaven or water for their thirst. 21 For forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell!

22 “Then you helped our ancestors conquer kingdoms and nations, and you placed your people in every corner of the land.[c] They took over the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan. 23 You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors.

24 “They went in and took possession of the land. You subdued whole nations before them. Even the Canaanites, who inhabited the land, were powerless! Your people could deal with these nations and their kings as they pleased. 25 Our ancestors captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took over houses full of good things, with cisterns already dug and vineyards and olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate until they were full and grew fat and enjoyed themselves in all your blessings.

26 “But despite all this, they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They turned their backs on your Law, they killed your prophets who warned them to return to you, and they committed terrible blasphemies. 27 So you handed them over to their enemies, who made them suffer. But in their time of trouble they cried to you, and you heard them from heaven. In your great mercy, you sent them liberators who rescued them from their enemies.

28 “But as soon as they were at peace, your people again committed evil in your sight, and once more you let their enemies conquer them. Yet whenever your people turned and cried to you again for help, you listened once more from heaven. In your wonderful mercy, you rescued them many times!

29 “You warned them to return to your Law, but they became proud and obstinate and disobeyed your commands. They did not follow your regulations, by which people will find life if only they obey. They stubbornly turned their backs on you and refused to listen. 30 In your love, you were patient with them for many years. You sent your Spirit, who warned them through the prophets. But still they wouldn’t listen! So once again you allowed the peoples of the land to conquer them. 31 But in your great mercy, you did not destroy them completely or abandon them forever. What a gracious and merciful God you are!

32 “And now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of unfailing love, do not let all the hardships we have suffered seem insignificant to you. Great trouble has come upon us and upon our kings and leaders and priests and prophets and ancestors—all of your people—from the days when the kings of Assyria first triumphed over us until now. 33 Every time you punished us you were being just. We have sinned greatly, and you gave us only what we deserved. 34 Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestors did not obey your Law or listen to the warnings in your commands and laws. 35 Even while they had their own kingdom, they did not serve you, though you showered your goodness on them. You gave them a large, fertile land, but they refused to turn from their wickedness.

36 “So now today we are slaves in the land of plenty that you gave our ancestors for their enjoyment! We are slaves here in this good land. 37 The lush produce of this land piles up in the hands of the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They have power over us and our livestock. We serve them at their pleasure, and we are in great misery.”

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Footnotes

  1. 9:9 Hebrew sea of reeds.
  2. 9:17 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads in their rebellion.
  3. 9:22 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

“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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Footnotes

  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

“In that day,” says the Lord, “when people are taking an oath, they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who rescued the people of Israel from the land of Egypt.’ Instead, they will say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the people of Israel back to their own land from the land of the north and from all the countries to which he had exiled them.’ Then they will live in their own 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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We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, who spoke on your authority to our kings and princes and ancestors and to all the people of the land.

“Lord, you are in the right; but as you see, our faces are covered with shame. This is true of all of us, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you. O Lord, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you. But the Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him. 10 We have not obeyed the Lord our God, for we have not followed the instructions he gave us through his servants the prophets. 11 All Israel has disobeyed your instruction and turned away, refusing to listen to your voice.

“So now the solemn curses and judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured down on us because of our sin. 12 You have kept your word and done to us and our rulers exactly as you warned. Never has there been such a disaster as happened in Jerusalem. 13 Every curse written against us in the Law of Moses has come true. Yet we have refused to seek mercy from the Lord our God by turning from our sins and recognizing his truth. 14 Therefore, the Lord has brought upon us the disaster he prepared. The Lord our God was right to do all of these things, for we did not obey him.

15 “O Lord our God, you brought lasting honor to your name by rescuing your people from Egypt in a great display of power. But we have sinned and are full of wickedness.

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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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