- Now on the twenty-fourth day of
this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, in
sackcloth, and with dust on their heads. (Neh. 8:2; Job 2:12)
- Then those of Israelite lineage
separated themselves from all foreigners; and they stood and confessed
their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. (Neh.
13:3; Neh. 13:30)
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- You gave them bread from heaven
for
their hunger,
and brought them water out of the rock for their thirst (Ex. 16:14-17;
Ex. 17:6) and told them to go in to possess the land which You had
sworn
to give them. (John 6:31)
- "But they and our fathers acted
proudly,
(Ps. 106:6)
hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commands. (Deut.
1:26-33)
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- You also gave Your good Spirit to
instruct them, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,
and gave them water for their thirst. (Num. 11:17;
Ex. 17:6; Ps. 143:10)
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- However You are just in all that
has befallen us; for You have dealt faithfully, (Ps. 119:137;
Dan. 9:14) but we have done wickedly.
- 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.
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