Nehemiah 9:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments.

¹⁷ And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders which thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of compassion, didst not forsake them.

¹⁸ Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and hail committed great blasphemies: