1On the twenty-fourth day of the same month,…
2Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all…
3While they stood in their places, they read…
4And the Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah,…
5Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah,…
6You alone are the LORD. You created the…
7You are the LORD, the God who chose…
8You found his heart faithful before You, and…
9You saw the affliction of our fathers in…
10You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all…
11You divided the sea before them, and they…
12You led them with a pillar of cloud…
13You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke…
14You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and…
15In their hunger You gave them bread from…
16But they and our fathers became arrogant and…
17They refused to listen and failed to remember…
18Even when they cast for themselves an image…
19You in Your great compassion did not forsake…
20You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them.…
21For forty years You sustained them in the…
22You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted…
23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of…
24So their descendants went in and possessed the…
25They captured fortified cities and fertile land and…
26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You;…
27So You delivered them into the hands of…
28But as soon as they had rest, they…
29You admonished them to turn back to Your…
30You were patient with them for many years,…
31But in Your great compassion, You did not…
32So now, our God, the great and mighty…
33You are just in all that has befallen…
34Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers…
35For even while they were in their kingdom,…
36So here we are today as slaves in…
37Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You…
38In view of all this, we make a…
