<vn='1'>Now in the <sn="6242">twenty</s> and <sn="702">fourth</s><sn="3117">day</s> of <sn="2088">this</s><sn="2320">month</s> the <sn="1121">children</s> of <sn="3478">Israel</s> were <sn="622">assembled</s> with <sn="6685">fasting</s>, and with <sn="8242">sackclothes</s>, and <sn="127">earth</s><sn="5921">upon</s> them. </v>
<vn='2'>And the <sn="2233">seed</s> of <sn="3478">Israel</s> separated <sn="914">themselves</s> from <sn="4480 3605">all</s><sn="1121 5236">strangers</s>, and <sn="5975">stood</s> and <sn="3034 5921">confessed</s> their <sn="2403">sins</s>, and the <sn="5771">iniquities</s> of their <sn="1">fathers</s>. </v>
<vn='3'>And they stood <sn="6965">up</s><sn="5921">in</s> their <sn="5977">place</s>, and <sn="7121">read</s> in the <sn="5612">book</s> of the <sn="8451">law</s> of the <sn="3068">LORD</s> their <sn="430">God</s> one <sn="7243">fourth</s> part of the <sn="3117">day</s>; and another <sn="7243">fourth</s> part they <sn="3034">confessed</s>, and <sn="7812">worshiped</s> the <sn="3068">LORD</s> their <sn="430">God</s>. </v>
<vn='4'>Then stood <sn="6965">up</s><sn="5921">upon</s> the <sn="4608">stairs</s>, of the <sn="3881">Levites</s>, <sn="3442">Jeshua</s>, and <sn="1137">Bani</s>, <sn="6934">Kadmiel</s>, <sn="7645">Shebaniah</s>, <sn="1138">Bunni</s>, <sn="8274">Sherebiah</s>, <sn="1137">Bani</s>, and <sn="3662">Chenani</s>, and <sn="2199">cried</s> with a <sn="1419">loud</s><sn="6963">voice</s><sn="413">unto</s> the <sn="3068">LORD</s> their <sn="430">God</s>. </v>
<vn='5'>Then the <sn="3881">Levites</s>, <sn="3442">Jeshua</s>, and <sn="6934">Kadmiel</s>, <sn="1137">Bani</s>, <sn="2813">Hashabniah</s>, <sn="8274">Sherebiah</s>, <sn="1941">Hodijah</s>, <sn="7645">Shebaniah</s>, and <sn="6611">Pethahiah</s>, <sn="559">said</s>, Stand <sn="6965">up</s> and <sn="1288">bless</s><sn="*853"></s> the <sn="3068">LORD</s> your <sn="430">God</s><sn="4480 5769">forever</s><sn="5704">and</s><sn="5769">ever</s>: and <sn="1288">blessed</s> be thy <sn="3519">glorious</s><sn="8034">name</s>, which is <sn="7311">exalted</s><sn="5921">above</s><sn="3605">all</s><sn="1293">blessing</s> and <sn="8416">praise</s>. </v>
<vn='6'><sn="859">Thou</s>, even <sn="1931">thou</s>, art <sn="3068">LORD</s><sn="905">alone</s>; <sn="859">thou</s> hast <sn="6213">made</s><sn="*853"></s><sn="8064">heaven</s>, the <sn="8064">heaven</s> of <sn="8064">heavens</s>, with <sn="3605">all</s> their <sn="6635">host</s>, the <sn="776">earth</s>, and <sn="3605">all</s> things <sn="834">that</s> are <sn="5921">therein</s>, the <sn="3220">seas</s>, and <sn="3605">all</s><sn="834">that</s> is therein, and <sn="859">thou</s><sn="2421">preservest</s><sn="*853"></s> them <sn="3605">all</s>; and the <sn="6635">host</s> of <sn="8064">heaven</s><sn="7812">worshipeth</s> thee. </v>
<vn='7'><sn="859">Thou</s> art the <sn="3068">LORD</s> the <sn="430">God</s>, <sn="834">who</s> didst <sn="977">choose</s><sn="87">Abram</s>, and broughtest him <sn="3318">forth</s> out of <sn="4480 218">Ur</s> of the <sn="3778">Chaldees</s>, and <sn="7760">gavest</s> him the <sn="8034">name</s> of <sn="85">Abraham</s>; </v>
<vn='8'>And <sn="4672">foundest</s><sn="*853"></s> his <sn="3824">heart</s><sn="539">faithful</s><sn="6440">before</s> thee, and <sn="3772">madest</s> a <sn="1285">covenant</s><sn="5973">with</s> him to <sn="5414">give</s><sn="*853"></s> the <sn="776">land</s> of the <sn="3669">Canaanites</s>, the <sn="2850">Hittites</s>, the <sn="567">Amorites</s>, and the <sn="6522">Perizzites</s>, and the <sn="2983">Jebusites</s>, and the <sn="1622">Girgashites</s>, to <sn="5414">give</s> it, I say, to his <sn="2233">seed</s>, and hast <sn="6965">performed</s><sn="*853"></s> thy <sn="1697">words</s>; <sn="3588">for</s><sn="859">thou</s> art <sn="6662">righteous</s>: </v>
<vn='9'>And didst <sn="7200">see</s><sn="*853"></s> the <sn="6040">affliction</s> of our <sn="1">fathers</s> in <sn="4714">Egypt</s>, and <sn="8085">heardest</s> their <sn="2201">cry</s><sn="5921">by</s> the <sn="5488">Red</s><sn="3220">sea</s>; </v>
<vn='10'>And <sn="5414">showedst</s><sn="226">signs</s> and <sn="4159">wonders</s> upon <sn="6547">Pharaoh</s>, and on <sn="3605">all</s> his <sn="5650">servants</s>, and on <sn="3605">all</s> the <sn="5971">people</s> of his <sn="776">land</s>: <sn="3588">for</s> thou <sn="3045">knewest</s><sn="3588">that</s> they dealt <sn="2102">proudly</s><sn="5921">against</s> them. So didst thou <sn="6213">get</s> thee a <sn="8034">name</s>, as it is <sn="2088">this</s><sn="3117">day</s>. </v>
<vn='11'>And thou didst <sn="1234">divide</s> the <sn="3220">sea</s><sn="6440">before</s> them, so that they went <sn="5674">through</s> the <sn="8432">midst</s> of the <sn="3220">sea</s> on the dry <sn="3004">land</s>; and their <sn="7291">persecutors</s> thou <sn="7993">threwest</s> into the <sn="4688">deeps</s>, <sn="3644">as</s> a <sn="68">stone</s> into the <sn="5794">mighty</s><sn="4325">waters</s>. </v>
<vn='12'>Moreover thou <sn="5148">leddest</s> them in the <sn="3119">day</s> by a <sn="6051">cloudy</s><sn="5982">pillar</s>; and in the <sn="3915">night</s> by a <sn="5982">pillar</s> of <sn="784">fire</s>, to give them <sn="215">light</s> in <sn="*853"></s> the <sn="1870">way</s><sn="834">wherein</s> they should <sn="1980">go</s>. </v>
<vn='13'>Thou camest <sn="3381">down</s> also <sn="5921">upon</s><sn="2022">mount</s><sn="5514">Sinai</s>, and <sn="1696">spakest</s><sn="5973">with</s> them from <sn="4480 8064">heaven</s>, and <sn="5414">gavest</s> them <sn="3477">right</s><sn="4941">judgments</s>, and <sn="571">true</s><sn="8451">laws</s>, <sn="2896">good</s><sn="2706">statutes</s> and <sn="4687">commandments</s>: </v>
<vn='14'>And madest <sn="3045">known</s> unto them thy <sn="6944">holy</s><sn="7676">sabbath</s>, and <sn="6680">commandedst</s> them <sn="4687">precepts</s>, <sn="2706">statutes</s>, and <sn="8451">laws</s>, by the <sn="3027">hand</s> of <sn="4872">Moses</s> thy <sn="5650">servant</s>: </v>
<vn='15'>And <sn="5414">gavest</s> them <sn="3899">bread</s> from <sn="4480 8064">heaven</s> for their <sn="7458">hunger</s>, and broughtest <sn="3318">forth</s><sn="4325">water</s> for them out of the <sn="4480 5553">rock</s> for their <sn="6772">thirst</s>, and <sn="559">promisedst</s> them that they should go <sn="935">in</s> to <sn="3423">possess</s><sn="*853"></s> the <sn="776">land</s><sn="834">which</s> thou hadst <sn="5375 *853 3027">sworn</s> to <sn="5414">give</s> them. </v>
<vn='16'>But <sn="1992">they</s> and our <sn="1">fathers</s> dealt <sn="2102">proudly</s>, and <sn="7185">hardened</s><sn="*853"></s> their <sn="6203">necks</s>, and <sn="8085">hearkened</s><sn="3808">not</s><sn="413">to</s> thy <sn="4687">commandments</s>, </v>
<vn='17'>And <sn="3985">refused</s> to <sn="8085">obey</s>, <sn="3808">neither</s> were <sn="2142">mindful</s> of thy <sn="6381">wonders</s><sn="834">that</s> thou <sn="6213">didst</s><sn="5973">among</s> them; but <sn="7185">hardened</s><sn="*853"></s> their <sn="6203">necks</s>, and in their <sn="4805">rebellion</s><sn="5414">appointed</s> a <sn="7218">captain</s> to <sn="7725">return</s> to their <sn="5659">bondage</s>: but <sn="859">thou</s> art a <sn="433">God</s> ready to <sn="5547">pardon</s>, <sn="2587">gracious</s> and <sn="7349">merciful</s>, <sn="750">slow</s> to <sn="639">anger</s>, and of <sn="7227">great</s><sn="2617">kindness</s>, and <sn="5800">forsookest</s> them <sn="3808">not</s>. </v>
<vn='18'><sn="637">Yea</s>, <sn="3588">when</s> they had <sn="6213">made</s> them a <sn="4541">molten</s><sn="5695">calf</s>, and <sn="559">said</s>, <sn="2088">This</s> is thy <sn="430">God</s><sn="834">that</s> brought thee <sn="5927">up</s> out of <sn="4480 4714">Egypt</s>, and had <sn="6213">wrought</s><sn="1419">great</s><sn="5007">provocations</s>; </v>
<vn='19'>Yet <sn="859">thou</s> in thy <sn="7227">manifold</s><sn="7356">mercies</s><sn="5800">forsookest</s> them <sn="3808">not</s> in the <sn="4057">wilderness</s>: <sn="*853"></s> the <sn="5982">pillar</s> of the <sn="6051">cloud</s><sn="5493">departed</s><sn="3808">not</s><sn="4480 5921">from</s> them by <sn="3119">day</s>, to <sn="5148">lead</s> them in the <sn="1870">way</s>; neither the <sn="5982">pillar</s> of <sn="784">fire</s> by <sn="3915">night</s>, to show them <sn="215">light</s>, and the <sn="1870">way</s><sn="834">wherein</s> they should <sn="1980">go</s>. </v>
<vn='20'>Thou <sn="5414">gavest</s> also thy <sn="2896">good</s><sn="7307">spirit</s> to <sn="7919">instruct</s> them, and <sn="4513">withheldest</s><sn="3808">not</s> thy <sn="4478">manna</s> from their <sn="4480 6310">mouth</s>, and <sn="5414">gavest</s> them <sn="4325">water</s> for their <sn="6772">thirst</s>. </v>
<vn='21'>Yea, <sn="705">forty</s><sn="8141">years</s> didst thou <sn="3557">sustain</s> them in the <sn="4057">wilderness</s>, so that they <sn="2637">lacked</s><sn="3808">nothing</s>; their <sn="8008">clothes</s> waxed not <sn="1086 3808">old</s>, and their <sn="7272">feet</s><sn="1216">swelled</s><sn="3808">not</s>. </v>
<vn='22'>Moreover thou <sn="5414">gavest</s> them <sn="4467">kingdoms</s> and <sn="5971">nations</s>, and didst <sn="2505">divide</s> them into <sn="6285">corners</s>: so they <sn="3423">possessed</s><sn="*853"></s> the <sn="776">land</s> of <sn="5511">Sihon</s>, and the <sn="776">land</s> of the <sn="4428">king</s> of <sn="2809">Heshbon</s>, and the <sn="776">land</s> of <sn="5747">Og</s><sn="4428">king</s> of <sn="1316">Bashan</s>. </v>
<vn='23'>Their <sn="1121">children</s> also <sn="7235">multipliedst</s> thou as the <sn="3556">stars</s> of <sn="8064">heaven</s>, and <sn="935">broughtest</s> them <sn="413">into</s> the <sn="776">land</s>, concerning <sn="834">which</s> thou hadst <sn="559">promised</s> to their <sn="1">fathers</s>, that they should go <sn="935">in</s> to <sn="3423">possess</s> it. </v>
<vn='24'>So the <sn="1121">children</s> went <sn="935">in</s> and <sn="3423">possessed</s><sn="*853"></s> the <sn="776">land</s>, and thou <sn="3665">subduedst</s><sn="6440">before</s> them <sn="*853"></s> the <sn="3427">inhabitants</s> of the <sn="776">land</s>, the <sn="3669">Canaanites</s>, and <sn="5414">gavest</s> them into their <sn="3027">hands</s>, with their <sn="4428">kings</s>, and the <sn="5971">people</s> of the <sn="776">land</s>, that they might <sn="6213">do</s> with them as they <sn="7522">would</s>. </v>
<vn='25'>And they <sn="3920">took</s><sn="1219">strong</s><sn="5892">cities</s>, and a <sn="8082">fat</s><sn="127">land</s>, and <sn="3423">possessed</s><sn="1004">houses</s><sn="4392">full</s> of <sn="3605">all</s><sn="2898">goods</s>, <sn="953">wells</s><sn="2672">digged</s>, <sn="3754">vineyards</s>, and <sn="2132">oliveyards</s>, and <sn="3978">fruit</s><sn="6086">trees</s> in <sn="7230">abundance</s>: so they did <sn="398">eat</s>, and were <sn="7646">filled</s>, and became <sn="8080">fat</s>, and delighted <sn="5727">themselves</s> in thy <sn="1419">great</s><sn="2898">goodness</s>. </v>
<vn='26'>Nevertheless they were <sn="4784">disobedient</s>, and <sn="4775">rebelled</s> against thee, and <sn="7993">cast</s><sn="*853"></s> thy <sn="8451">law</s><sn="310">behind</s> their <sn="1458">backs</s>, and <sn="2026">slew</s> thy <sn="5030">prophets</s><sn="834">which</s><sn="5749">testified</s> against them to <sn="7725">turn</s> them <sn="413">to</s> thee, and they <sn="6213">wrought</s><sn="1419">great</s><sn="5007">provocations</s>. </v>
<vn='27'>Therefore thou <sn="5414">deliveredst</s> them into the <sn="3027">hand</s> of their <sn="6862">enemies</s>, who <sn="6887">vexed</s> them: and in the <sn="6256">time</s> of their <sn="6869">trouble</s>, when they <sn="6817">cried</s><sn="413">unto</s> thee, <sn="859">thou</s><sn="8085">heardest</s> them from <sn="4480 8064">heaven</s>; and according to thy <sn="7227">manifold</s><sn="7356">mercies</s> thou <sn="5414">gavest</s> them <sn="3467">saviors</s>, who <sn="3467">saved</s> them out of the <sn="4480 3027">hand</s> of their <sn="6862">enemies</s>. </v>
<vn='28'>But after they had <sn="5117">rest</s>, they <sn="6213">did</s><sn="7451">evil</s><sn="7725">again</s><sn="6440">before</s> thee: therefore <sn="5800">leftest</s> thou them in the <sn="3027">hand</s> of their <sn="341">enemies</s>, so that they had the <sn="7287">dominion</s> over them: yet when they <sn="7725">returned</s>, and <sn="2199">cried</s> unto thee, <sn="859">thou</s><sn="8085">heardest</s> them from <sn="4480 8064">heaven</s>; and <sn="7227">many</s><sn="6256">times</s> didst thou <sn="5337">deliver</s> them according to thy <sn="7356">mercies</s>; </v>
<vn='29'>And <sn="5749">testifiedst</s> against them, that thou mightest bring them <sn="7725">again</s><sn="413">unto</s> thy <sn="8451">law</s>: yet <sn="1992">they</s> dealt <sn="2102">proudly</s>, and <sn="8085">hearkened</s><sn="3808">not</s> unto thy <sn="4687">commandments</s>, but <sn="2398">sinned</s> against thy <sn="4941">judgments</s>, ( <sn="834">which</s> if a <sn="120">man</s><sn="6213">do</s>, he shall <sn="2421">live</s> in them;) and <sn="5414 5637">withdrew</s> the <sn="3802">shoulder</s>, and <sn="7185">hardened</s> their <sn="6203">neck</s>, and would <sn="3808">not</s><sn="8085">hear</s>. </v>
<vn='30'>Yet <sn="7227">many</s><sn="8141">years</s> didst thou <sn="4900 5921">forbear</s> them, and <sn="5749">testifiedst</s> against them by thy <sn="7307">spirit</s><sn="3027">in</s> thy <sn="5030">prophets</s>: yet would they <sn="3808">not</s> give <sn="238">ear</s>: therefore <sn="5414">gavest</s> thou them into the <sn="3027">hand</s> of the <sn="5971">people</s> of the <sn="776">lands</s>. </v>
<vn='31'>Nevertheless for thy <sn="7227">great</s> mercies' <sn="7356"></s> sake thou didst <sn="3808">not</s> utterly <sn="6213 3617">consume</s> them, <sn="3808">nor</s><sn="5800">forsake</s> them; <sn="3588">for</s><sn="859">thou</s> art a <sn="2587">gracious</s> and <sn="7349">merciful</s><sn="410">God</s>. </v>
<vn='32'><sn="6258">Now</s> therefore, our <sn="430">God</s>, the <sn="1419">great</s>, the <sn="1368">mighty</s>, and the <sn="3372">terrible</s><sn="410">God</s>, who <sn="8104">keepest</s><sn="1285">covenant</s> and <sn="2617">mercy</s>, let <sn="408">not</s><sn="*853"></s><sn="3605">all</s> the <sn="8513">trouble</s> seem <sn="4591">little</s><sn="6440">before</s> thee, <sn="834">that</s> hath come <sn="4672">upon</s> us, on our <sn="4428">kings</s>, on our <sn="8269">princes</s>, and on our <sn="3548">priests</s>, and on our <sn="5030">prophets</s>, and on our <sn="1">fathers</s>, and on <sn="3605">all</s> thy <sn="5971">people</s>, since the <sn="4480 3117">time</s> of the <sn="4428">kings</s> of <sn="804">Assyria</s><sn="5704">unto</s><sn="2088">this</s><sn="3117">day</s>. </v>
<vn='33'>Howbeit <sn="859">thou</s> art <sn="6662">just</s><sn="5921">in</s><sn="3605">all</s> that is <sn="935">brought</s><sn="5921">upon</s> us; <sn="3588">for</s> thou hast <sn="6213">done</s><sn="571">right</s>, but <sn="587">we</s> have done <sn="7561">wickedly</s>: </v>
<vn='34'>Neither have our <sn="4428">kings</s>, our <sn="8269">princes</s>, our <sn="3548">priests</s>, <sn="3808">nor</s> our <sn="1">fathers</s>, <sn="6213">kept</s> thy <sn="8451">law</s>, <sn="3808">nor</s><sn="7181">hearkened</s><sn="413">unto</s> thy <sn="4687">commandments</s> and thy <sn="5715">testimonies</s>, <sn="834">wherewith</s> thou didst <sn="5749">testify</s> against them. </v>
<vn='35'>For <sn="1992">they</s> have <sn="3808">not</s><sn="5647">served</s> thee in their <sn="4438">kingdom</s>, and in thy <sn="7227">great</s><sn="2898">goodness</s><sn="834">that</s> thou <sn="5414">gavest</s> them, and in the <sn="7342">large</s> and <sn="8082">fat</s><sn="776">land</s><sn="834">which</s> thou <sn="5414">gavest</s><sn="6440">before</s> them, <sn="3808">neither</s><sn="7725">turned</s> they from their <sn="7451">wicked</s><sn="4480 4611">works</s>. </v>
<vn='36'><sn="2009">Behold</s>, <sn="587">we</s> are <sn="5650">servants</s> this <sn="3117">day</s>, and for the <sn="776">land</s><sn="834">that</s> thou <sn="5414">gavest</s> unto our <sn="1">fathers</s> to <sn="398">eat</s><sn="*853"></s> the <sn="6529">fruit</s> thereof and the <sn="2898">good</s> thereof, <sn="2009">behold</s>, <sn="587">we</s> are <sn="5650">servants</s><sn="5921">in</s> it: </v>
<vn='37'>And it yieldeth <sn="7235">much</s><sn="8393">increase</s> unto the <sn="4428">kings</s><sn="834">whom</s> thou hast <sn="5414">set</s><sn="5921">over</s> us because of our <sn="2403">sins</s>: also they have <sn="4910">dominion</s><sn="5921">over</s> our <sn="1472">bodies</s>, and over our <sn="929">cattle</s>, at their <sn="7522">pleasure</s>, and <sn="587">we</s> are in <sn="1419">great</s><sn="6869">distress</s>. </v>
<vn='38'>And because of <sn="3605">all</s><sn="2063">this</s><sn="587">we</s><sn="3772">make</s> a <sn="548">sure</s> covenant, and <sn="3789">write</s> it; and our <sn="8269">princes</s>, <sn="3881">Levites</s>, and <sn="3548">priests</s>, <sn="2856 5921">seal</s> unto it. </v>