remember the former things of old;
for I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is none like me,

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Behold, the former things have come to pass,
    (A)and new things I now declare;
before they spring forth
    I tell you of them.”

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He has (A)caused his wondrous works to be remembered;
    the Lord is gracious and merciful.

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(A)“To whom will you liken me and make me equal,
    and compare me, that we may be alike?

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(A)Remember 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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21 (A)Declare and present your case;
    let them take counsel together!
Who told this long ago?
    Who declared it of old?
Was it not I, the Lord?
    And there is no other god besides me,
a righteous God (B)and a Savior;
    there is none besides me.

22 “Turn to me and be saved,
    (C)all the ends of the earth!
    For I am God, and there is no other.

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26 (A)“There is none like God, O (B)Jeshurun,
    (C)who rides through the heavens to your help,
    through the skies in his majesty.

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18 (A)For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens
    (he is God!),
who formed the earth and made it
    (he established it;
he (B)did not create it empty,
    (C)he formed it to be inhabited!):
“I am the Lord, and there is no other.

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New Heavens and a New Earth

17 “For behold, (A)I create new heavens
    and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
    or come into mind.

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(A)I am the Lord, and there is no other,
    besides me there is no God;
    (B)I equip you, though you do not know me,
(C)that people may know, from the rising of the sun
    and from the west, that there is none besides me;
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.

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You are the Lord, the God (A)who chose Abram and brought him out of (B)Ur of the Chaldeans (C)and gave him the name Abraham. (D)You found his heart faithful before you, (E)and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring (F)the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. (G)And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.

(H)“And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard (I)their cry at the Red Sea, 10 (J)and performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that (K)they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And (L)you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day. 11 (M)And you divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on dry land, and you cast their pursuers into the depths, (N)as a stone into mighty waters. 12 By (O)a pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go. 13 (P)You came down on Mount Sinai (Q)and spoke with them from heaven and gave them (R)right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments, 14 (S)and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant. 15 (T)You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and (U)brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you (V)told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

16 “But they and our fathers (W)acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments. 17 They refused to obey (X)and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.[a] But you are a God ready to forgive, (Y)gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them. 18 Even (Z)when they had made for themselves a golden[b] calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ (AA)and had committed great blasphemies, 19 you (AB)in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. (AC)The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, (AD)nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go. 20 (AE)You gave your good Spirit to instruct them (AF)and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. 21 (AG)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 “And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. (AH)So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon (AI)and the land of Og king of Bashan. 23 You multiplied their children (AJ)as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess. 24 (AK)So the descendants went in and possessed the land, (AL)and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would. 25 And they captured (AM)fortified cities and (AN)a rich land, and took possession of (AO)houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled (AP)and became fat and delighted themselves in (AQ)your great goodness.

26 (AR)“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you (AS)and cast your law behind their back (AT)and killed your prophets, who (AU)had warned them in order to turn them back to you, (AV)and they committed great blasphemies. 27 (AW)Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. (AX)And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them (AY)saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies. 28 (AZ)But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, (BA)and many times you delivered them according to your mercies. 29 (BB)And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet (BC)they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, (BD)which if a person does them, he shall live by them, (BE)and they turned a stubborn shoulder (BF)and stiffened their neck and would not obey. 30 Many years (BG)you bore with them (BH)and warned them (BI)by your Spirit through your prophets. (BJ)Yet they would not give ear. (BK)Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. 31 Nevertheless, (BL)in your great mercies (BM)you did not make an end of them or forsake them, (BN)for you are a gracious and merciful God.

32 “Now, therefore, our God, (BO)the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, (BP)since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day. 33 (BQ)Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully (BR)and we have acted wickedly. 34 Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them. 35 Even in their own kingdom, (BS)and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and (BT)rich land that you set before them, (BU)they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works. 36 Behold, (BV)we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves. 37 (BW)And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:17 Some Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their slavery
  2. Nehemiah 9:18 Hebrew metal

(A)“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he[a] had driven them.’ Then they shall dwell in their own land.”

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  1. Jeremiah 23:8 Septuagint; Hebrew I

(A)We have not listened to (B)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to (C)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. To you, (D)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, (E)those who are near and (F)those who are far away, in (G)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of (H)the treachery that they have committed against you. To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because (I)we have sinned against you. (J)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 10 (K)and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by (L)his servants the prophets. 11 (M)All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, (N)refusing to obey your voice. (O)And the curse and oath (P)that are written in the Law of (Q)Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because (R)we have sinned against him. 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against (S)our rulers who ruled us,[a] by (T)bringing upon us a great calamity. (U)For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. 13 (V)As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, (W)turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. 14 (X)Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, (Y)for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and (Z)we have not obeyed his voice. 15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt (AA)with a mighty hand, and (AB)have made a name for yourself, as at this day, (AC)we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:12 Or our judges who judged us

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