kjv@Nehemiah:9:3@ And they stood up in their place, and read in the [BOOK] of the [LAW] of the [LORD] their [GOD] one fourth part of the [DAY]; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the [LORD] their [GOD].
kjv@Nehemiah:9:6@ Thou, even thou, [ART][LORD] alone; thou hast made [HEAVEN], the [HEAVEN] of heavens, with all their host, the [EARTH], and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of [HEAVEN] worshippeth thee.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:10@ And shewedst signs and wonders upon [PHARAOH], and on all his servants, and on all the people of his [LAND]: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a [NAME], as it is this [DAY].
kjv@Nehemiah:9:11@ And thou didst divide the [SEA] before them, so that they went through the midst of the [SEA] on the dry [LAND]; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:23@ Their [CHILDREN] also multipliedst thou as the [STARS] of [HEAVEN], and broughtest them into the [LAND], concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:24@ So the [CHILDREN] went in and possessed the [LAND], and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the [LAND], the [CANAANITES], and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the [LAND], that they might do with them as they would.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:25@ And they took strong [CITIES], and a [FAT][LAND], and possessed houses full of all goods, [WELLS] digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and [FRUIT] trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became [FAT], and delighted themselves in thy [GREAT] goodness.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:26@ Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy [LAW] behind their backs, and slew thy [PROPHETS] which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought [GREAT] provocations.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:27@ Therefore thou deliveredst them into the [HAND] of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the [TIME] of their [TROUBLE], when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from [HEAVEN]; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the [HAND] of their enemies.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:28@ But after they had [REST], they did [EVIL] again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the [HAND] of their enemies, so that they had the [DOMINION] over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from [HEAVEN]; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;
kjv@Nehemiah:9:29@ And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy [LAW]: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy [COMMANDMENTS], but sinned against thy [JUDGMENTS], (which if a [MAN] do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:30@ Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy [SPIRIT] in thy [PROPHETS]: yet would they not give [EAR]: therefore gavest thou them into the [HAND] of the people of the lands.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:31@ Nevertheless for thy [GREAT] mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou [ART] a gracious and merciful [GOD].
kjv@Nehemiah:9:32@ Now therefore, our [GOD], the [GREAT], the mighty, and the terrible [GOD], who keepest [COVENANT] and [MERCY], let not all the [TROUBLE] seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our [PROPHETS], and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the [TIME] of the kings of [ASSYRIA] unto this [DAY].
kjv@Nehemiah:9:33@ Howbeit thou [ART] just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
kjv@Nehemiah:9:34@ Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy [LAW], nor hearkened unto thy [COMMANDMENTS] and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:36@ Behold, we are servants this [DAY], and for the [LAND] that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the [FRUIT] thereof and the [GOOD] thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
kjv@Nehemiah:9:37@ And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have [DOMINION] over our bodies, and over our [CATTLE], at their [PLEASURE], and we are in [GREAT] distress.
We have privatized our religion a great deal. The sins detailed here are considered the sins of the fathers, a frequency of falling short on a national scale. Today our confessions are strictly personal if any. Sin is reduced down to things we do that harm others and if we don't harm it isn't a sin. We leave ourselves to judge whether our deeds hurt someone and even then it is only relative to the hurt that they have caused us. Not only were these stated sins national, so too were God's mercies.
What are the sins of our fathers now days? No doubt they are very much the same and just as prevalent. They effect us as a nation in ways God cannot overlook. Much like Judah, there are certainly those that do right, a remnant at all times, but they are vastly out numbered and the coarse of the nation is stripped from their hands. We would do well to consider each of their sins.
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