1Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month…
2The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all…
3They stood up in their place, and read…
4Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani,…
5Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah,…
6You are the LORD, even you alone. You…
7You are the LORD, the God who chose…
8found his heart faithful before you, and made…
9“You saw the affliction of our fathers in…
10and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against…
11You divided the sea before them, so that…
12Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led…
13“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and…
14and made known to them your holy Sabbath,…
15and gave them bread from the sky for…
16“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened…
17and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of…
18Yes, when they had made themselves a molded…
19yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake…
20You gave also your good Spirit to instruct…
21“Yes, forty years you sustained them in the…
22Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which…
23You also multiplied their children as the stars…
24“So the children went in and possessed the…
25They took fortified cities and a rich land,…
26“Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you,…
27Therefore you delivered them into the hand of…
28But after they had rest, they did evil…
29and testified against them, that you might bring…
30Yet many years you put up with them,…
31“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make…
32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty,…
33However you are just in all that has…
34Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and…
35For they have not served you in their…
36“Behold, we are servants today, and as for…
37It yields much increase to the kings whom…
38Yet for all this, we make a sure…
