Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
On
the twenty -
fourth day of the
same
month ,
the Israelites
gathered together
, fasting and wearing
sackcloth, with
dust
on
their
heads.
And
in
the twenty and
fourth day of this
month have
the sons
of
Israel
been
gathered, with
fasting ,
and with
sackcloth, and
earth
upon
them;
Those
of Israelite
descent
separated themselves
from all the
foreigners
, and they
stood
and confessed
their sins and the iniquities of their fathers .
and
the
seed
of Israel
are
separated from all sons
of
a
stranger
, and stand
and confess
concerning
their sins ,
and the iniquities of their fathers ,
While
they
stood
in
their places
, they
read from
the Book of the Law of the
LORD
their God for
a quarter
of the day, and they spent
another
quarter
of
the
day
in
confession
and worship
of
the
LORD
their God.
and
rise
up
on
their station
, and
read in
the book of the law of Jehovah
their God a fourth
of the day, and a
fourth
they are
confessing
and bowing
themselves
to
Jehovah
their God.
And the Levites —
Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and
Chenani —stood
on
the
raised
platform
and cried
out
in
a loud voice to
the
LORD
their God.
And there
stand
up
on
the ascent,
of
the
Levites ,
Jeshua, and
Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, Chenani ,
and they
cry
with
a loud voice unto
Jehovah
their God.
Then
the Levites —
Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah
, Sherebiah, Hodiah
, Shebaniah, and
Pethahiah —said
, “Stand
up
and
bless the
LORD
your God from everlasting
to
everlasting:
Blessed
be
Your
glorious
name
, and may
it
be
exalted above all blessing and praise.
And
the Levites say,
`even'
Jeshua, and
Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah
, Sherebiah, Hodijah
, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, `Rise,
bless Jehovah
your God ,
from the
age
unto
the
age
, and they
bless
the
name
of
Thine
honour
that
`is'
exalted above all blessing and praise.
You
alone
are
the
LORD.
You
created
the heavens, the highest
heavens with
all their host, the earth and all that is
on it, the seas and all that is
in them .
You
give
life
to
all things
, and the host of heaven
worships
You
.
Thou
`art'
He,
O
Jehovah,
Thyself
--
Thou
hast
made
the heavens, the heavens of
the
heavens,
and
all their host, the earth and all that `are'
on it, the seas and all that `are'
in them ,
and
Thou
art
keeping
all of
them
alive
, and the host of the
heavens
to
Thee
are
bowing
themselves
.
You
are
the
LORD
, the
God who
chose
Abram
, who brought
him out of
Ur of the Chaldeans and gave
him
the
name Abraham .
`Thou
`art'
He
, O
Jehovah
God, who didst
fix
on
Abraham,
and
didst
bring
him out from
Ur of the Chaldeans ,
and didst
make
his
name Abraham ,
You
found
his heart faithful
before You
, and
made
a
covenant
with him to give the land of the Canaanites
and
Hittites
, of
the Amorites
and Perizzites
, of
the Jebusites
and Girgashites—
to give it to his descendants
. You
have
kept
Your
promise
, because
You
are
righteous .
and
didst
find
his heart stedfast
before Thee
, so
as
to
make
with him the
covenant,
to give the land of the Canaanite
, the Hittite,
the
Amorite,
and the
Perizzite
, and
the Jebusite,
and the
Girgashite,
to give `
it '
to his seed
. `And
Thou
dost
establish
Thy
words
, for
Thou
`art'
righteous ,
You
saw
the affliction of our fathers in Egypt ;
You
heard
their cry at
the Red
Sea .
and
dost
see
the affliction of our fathers in Egypt ,
and
their cry hast
heard
by
the sea of
Suph,
You
performed
signs and wonders against
Pharaoh, all his officials
, and all the people of his land, for You
knew
they had
acted with
arrogance
against our
fathers.
You
made
a name for
Yourself
that
endures
to
this day.
and
dost
give
signs and wonders on
Pharaoh, and
on
all his servants
, and on
all the people of his land, for Thou
hast
known
that
they have
acted proudly
against them,
and
Thou
makest
to
Thee
a name as
`at'
this day.
You
divided
the sea before them, and they crossed
through
it
on dry ground.
You
hurled
their pursuers into the depths like
a stone into raging
waters.
And
the sea Thou
hast
cleaved
before them, and they pass
over
into
the
midst
of
the
sea
on the
dry land,
and
their pursuers Thou
hast
cast
into the depths ,
as
a stone ,
into the
strong
waters.
You
led
them
with
a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light
for
them the way in which they should
travel
.
And
by
a pillar of cloud Thou
hast
led
them
by day ,
and by
a pillar of fire by night, to lighten
to
them the way in which they go
.
You
came
down
on Mount Sinai and
spoke
with them from heaven.
You
gave
them just
ordinances
, true laws, and
good statutes and commandments
.
`And
on mount Sinai Thou
hast
come
down,
even
to
speak
with them from the
heavens,
and
Thou
dost
give
to
them right
judgments
, and
true laws, good statutes and commands
.
You
revealed
to
them
Your
holy Sabbath and
gave
them commandments
and statutes and laws
through
Your
servant
Moses .
And
Thy
holy sabbath Thou
hast
made
known
to
them ,
and commands,
and
statutes ,
and law,
Thou
hast
commanded
for
them,
by
the
hand
of
Moses Thy
servant;
In
their
hunger
You
gave
them
bread from heaven;
in
their
thirst
You
brought
them water from the
rock .
You
told
them to go in and
possess the land which
You
had
sworn
to give them.
and
bread from the
heavens
Thou
hast
given
to
them for
their
hunger,
and
water from a
rock hast
brought
out
to
them for
their
thirst,
and
dost
say
to them
to
go in to
possess the land that
Thou
hast
lifted
up
Thy
hand
to give to
them.
But
they and our fathers became
arrogant
and stiff-necked
and did
not obey
Your
commandments.
`And
they and our fathers have
acted
proudly,
and harden
their
neck,
and have
not hearkened
unto
Thy
commands,
They refused
to listen
and failed
to
remember
the
wonders You
performed
among
them .
They
stiffened
their necks
and appointed
a leader
to return
them
to their bondage
in Egypt.
But
You
are
a forgiving
God, gracious and compassionate
, slow
to
anger
and rich
in loving
devotion
, and You
did
not forsake
them.
yea,
they refuse
to hearken,
and have
not
remembered
Thy
wonders that
Thou
hast
done
with
them ,
and
harden
their neck
and appoint
a head,
to turn
back
to their service,
in their
rebellion;
and
Thou
`art'
a God of
pardons
, gracious ,
and merciful
, long-suffering,
and abundant
in kindness
, and hast
not forsaken
them.
Even
when they cast
for
themselves an
image
of
a calf and said
, ‘
This is your
God who
brought you
up out of Egypt, ’
and when
they
committed
terrible
blasphemies
,
`Also,
when they have
made
to
themselves a molten
calf ,
and say
, this `
is '
thy
god that
brought thee
up out of Egypt, and do
great
despisings
,
You
in Your
great
compassion
did
not forsake
them in the wilderness .
By
day
the pillar of cloud never
turned away
from guiding
them on
their
path;
and
by the night
the pillar of fire illuminated
the way they should
go.
and
Thou,
in Thine
abundant
mercies,
hast
not forsaken
them in the wilderness --
the pillar of the
cloud hath
not
turned aside
from off
them by day,
to
lead
them
in
the way,
and
the pillar of the
fire by
night,
to
give
light
to
them
and
the way in
which
they go.
You
gave
Your
good Spirit to instruct
them .
You
did
not
withhold
Your
manna from their mouths
, and You
gave
them
water for their thirst .
`And
Thy
good Spirit Thou
hast
given,
to cause
them to
act
wisely;
and
Thy
manna Thou
hast
not
withheld
from their mouth
, and water Thou
hast
given
to
them
for their thirst ,
For
forty years You
sustained
them in the
wilderness ,
so
that
they lacked nothing.
Their clothes
did
not wear
out and their feet did
not swell
.
and
forty years Thou
hast
nourished
them in a
wilderness ;
they have
not
lacked ;
their garments
have
not worn
out ,
and their feet have
not swelled
.
You
gave
them kingdoms and peoples and allotted
to
them every
corner
of
the land.
So
they took
the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
`And
Thou
givest
to
them kingdoms ,
and peoples ,
and dost
apportion
them to
the corner,
and
they possess
the land of Sihon ,
and
the
land
of
the
king of Heshbon ,
and the
land
of Og king of Bashan.
You
multiplied
their descendants
like
the stars of heaven
and brought
them to
the land You
had
told
their fathers to enter
and
possess.
And
their sons
Thou
hast
multiplied
as
the stars of the
heavens,
and bringest
them in
unto
the land that
Thou
hast
said
to
their fathers to go
in
to
possess.
So
their
descendants
went
in and possessed
the land ;
You
subdued
before them the Canaanites
dwelling
in
the land .
You
delivered
into their hands
the
kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as
they
wished
.
`And
the
sons
come
in ,
and possess
the land ,
and
Thou
humblest
before them the inhabitants
of
the land ,
the
Canaanites,
and
givest
them
into their hand,
and
their
kings ,
and the
peoples of the land, to do with them according
to
their
pleasure
.
They captured
fortified
cities and fertile
land
and took
houses full of all goods
, wells already
dug
, vineyards, olive groves
, and fruit trees in abundance .
So
they
ate
and were
filled;
they grew
fat and delighted
in Your
great goodness.
And
they capture
fenced
cities ,
and fat
ground,
and possess
houses full of all good
, digged-
wells, vineyards, and
olive -yards
, and fruit -
trees in abundance ,
and they eat,
and
are
satisfied,
and
become
fat ,
and delight
themselves
in Thy
great goodness.
But
they were
disobedient and rebelled
against You;
they
flung
Your
law behind their backs.
They
killed
Your
prophets, who had
admonished
them to
return
to You.
They committed
terrible
blasphemies.
`And
they are
disobedient ,
and rebel
against Thee,
and
cast
Thy
law behind their back,
and
Thy
prophets they
have
slain
, who testified
against
them ,
to bring
them
back
unto
Thee,
and
they do
great
despisings,
So
You
delivered
them into the hands
of enemies
who
oppressed
them, and in their
time of distress they cried
out
to
You.
From heaven
You
heard
them
, and in
Your
great
compassion
You
gave
them deliverers
who
saved
them from
the hands
of their enemies
.
and
Thou
givest
them into the hand
of their
adversaries,
and
they
distress
them, and in the
time of their
distress they cry
unto
Thee,
and
Thou,
from the
heavens
, dost
hear,
and ,
according
to
Thine
abundant
mercies,
dost
give
to
them saviours,
and
they
save
them out
of
the hand
of their adversaries
.
But
as
soon
as
they had
rest, they again
did
evil in
Your
sight.
So
You
abandoned
them to
the hands
of their enemies, who
had
dominion
over them .
When
they cried
out
to
You
again
, You
heard
from heaven
, and You
delivered
them many times in
Your
compassion.
`And
when
they have
rest, they turn
back
to
do
evil before
Thee,
and
Thou
dost
leave
them in
the hand
of their enemies, and
they
rule
over them ;
and
they turn
back
, and
call
Thee,
and
Thou
from the
heavens
dost
hear
, and dost
deliver
them ,
according
to
Thy
mercies,
many times ,
You
admonished
them to turn
back to
Your
law ,
but
they
were
arrogant
and disobeyed
Your
commandments.
They sinned
against Your
ordinances
, by
which a
man will
live
if
he
practices
them .
They
stubbornly
shrugged
their
shoulders;
they stiffened
their necks
and would
not obey
.
and
dost
testify
against
them ,
to bring
them
back unto
Thy
law ;
and they --
they
have
acted
proudly,
and
have
not
hearkened
to
Thy
commands,
and
against Thy
judgments
have
sinned
, --
which man doth
and
hath
lived
in
them --
and
they give
a
refractory
shoulder,
and
their neck
have
hardened,
and have
not hearkened
.
You
were
patient
with
them for
many years, and Your
Spirit
admonished
them through
Your
prophets .
Yet
they would
not listen
, so
You
gave
them into the hands
of the
neighboring
peoples .
`And
Thou
drawest
over
them many years, and testifiest
against
them by
Thy
Spirit,
by
the
hand
of
Thy
prophets ,
and
they have
not given
ear
, and
Thou
dost
give
them into the hand
of peoples of
the
lands,
But
in Your
great
compassion,
You
did
not put
an
end
to
them ;
nor did
You
forsake
them ,
for You
are
a gracious and compassionate
God
.
and
in Thine
abundant
mercies
Thou
hast
not made
them a
consumption,
nor hast
forsaken
them ;
for a God,
gracious and merciful,
`art'
Thou
.
So
now, our God, the great and
mighty and awesome
God
who
keeps
His
gracious
covenant
, do
not view
lightly
all the hardship
that has
come
upon
us, and
upon
our kings and
leaders
, our priests and prophets, our ancestors
and all Your
people, from the days of the kings of Assyria
until
today.
`And
now, O
our God --
God
, the great ,
the
mighty ,
and the
fearful
, keeping
the
covenant
and
the
kindness
--
let
not all the travail
that hath
found
us be
little
before
Thee
, for
our kings, for
our heads,
and
for
our
priests ,
and for
our
prophets, and
for
our fathers,
and for
all Thy
people, from the days of the kings of Asshur
unto
this
day;
You
are
just
in
all that has
befallen
us, because
You
have
acted
faithfully
, while
we have acted
wickedly .
and
Thou
`art'
righteous
concerning
all that hath
come
upon
us, for
truth
Thou
hast
done
, and
we have done
wickedly ;
Our kings and
leaders
and
priests and fathers did
not obey
Your
law or
listen
to
Your
commandments
and warnings
that You
gave
them .
and
our kings ,
our
heads,
our
priests ,
and our
fathers ,
have
not done
Thy
law ,
nor
attended
unto
Thy
commands,
and to
Thy
testimonies,
that Thou
hast
testified
against
them ;
For
even
while
they were
in their kingdom, with
the
abundant goodness that You
had
given them, and in the spacious
and
fertile
land that You
had
set before them, they
would
not serve
You
or
turn
from their wicked
ways
.
and
they ,
in their kingdom, and
in
Thine
abundant goodness ,
that Thou
hast
given to
them, and in the land ,
the
large
and
the
fat,
that Thou
hast
set before them, have
not served
Thee,
nor
turned
back
from their evil
doings
.
So
here
we are today
as
slaves
in
the land You
gave
our fathers to enjoy
its fruit and goodness—
here
we are as
slaves!
`Lo,
we --
to-day
--
`
are '
servants,
and
the land that
Thou
hast
given
to
our fathers ,
to eat
its fruit and its
good
--
lo,
we `
are '
servants
on
it,
Its abundant
harvest
goes
to the kings You
have
set over us because
of
our sins .
And they
rule
over our bodies and our livestock
as
they
please.
We are in great distress.
and
its increase
it
is
multiplying
to the kings whom
Thou
hast
set over us in
our sins ;
and over our bodies they
are
ruling,
and over
our cattle,
according
to
their
pleasure,
and
we `
are '
in great distress.
In
view
of
all this ,
we make
a binding
agreement
, putting
it
in
writing and sealing
it
with
the
names
of
our leaders
, Levites, and
priests. ”
And
for
all this we are
making
a stedfast
covenant
, and
are
writing ,
and over
him
who
is
sealed
`are'
our heads
, our
Levites, our
priests. '
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