Nehemiah 9:27-37 Therefore thou didst deliver them into the hand of their enemies, who afflicted them. But when, in the time of their distress they cried to thee, thou from heaven didst hear, and in thy tender mercies which are great, thou didst send them deliverers, and save them out of the hand of them who were afflicting them.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁷ Therefore thou didst deliver them into the hand of their enemies, who afflicted them. But when, in the time of their distress they cried to thee, thou from heaven didst hear, and in thy tender mercies which are great, thou didst send them deliverers, and save them out of the hand of them who were afflicting them. ²⁸ Yet soon as they had rest, they returned to do evil in thy sight, therefore thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, who exercised dominion over them. But again when they cried to thee, thou from heaven didst hearken, and in the multitude of thy tender mercies didst deliver them, ²⁹ and admonish them to return to thy law. When they hearkened not, but transgressed thy commandments and thy judgments, [which if a man practise he shall live thereby] and turned back rebelliously, and hardened their neck, and would not hear, ³⁰ and thou hadst borne with them many years, and testified against them by thy Spirit; by the ministry of thy prophets; and they did not give ear, though thou didst deliver them into the hands of the people of the land, ³¹ yet in the multitude of thy tender mercies thou didst not give them up to utter destruction, nor quite forsake them. Seeing thou art mighty and merciful, and tenderly compassionate; ³² now therefore, our God, the Mighty, the Great, the Powerful and the Awful, who keepest thy covenant and thy mercy, let not all the trouble be accounted light in thy sight, which hath come upon us, and our kings, and our chiefs, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and on all thy people from the days of the kings of Assur even to this day. ³³ Thou indeed art righteous in all that have come upon us. For thou hast acted with truth; but we have sinned greatly. ³⁴ Our kings, and our chiefs, and our priests, and our fathers, have not kept thy law, nor hearkened to thy commandments and thy testimonies which thou hast testified against them. ³⁵ Even in thine own kingdom, and during that abundant bounty of thine which thou didst bestow on them, and in this extensive and rich country which thou gavest before them, they have not served thee, nor turned away from their wicked devices. ³⁶ Behold we are now slaves, and as for this land which thou gavest to our fathers to eat the fruits thereof, and the good things thereof, behold we are slaves in it; ³⁷ and its abundant fruits belong to those kings whom for our sins thou hast set over us, and who have dominion over our bodies, and who can do with our cattle what they please, so that we are in great affliction.