kjv@Nehemiah:9:2@ And the seed of [Israel] separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
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:9:15@ And gavest them [Bread] from [Heaven] for their hunger, and broughtest forth [Water] for them out of the [Rock] for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:16@ But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy [Commandments],
kjv@Nehemiah:9:17@ And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a [Captain] to return to their bondage: but thou art a [God] ready to [Pardon], gracious and merciful, slow to [Anger], and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:18@ Yea, when they had made them a molten [Calf], and said, This is thy [God] that brought thee up out of [Egypt], and had wrought great provocations;
kjv@Nehemiah:9:19@ Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the [Pillar] of the [Cloud] departed not from them [By][Day], to lead them in the way; neither the [Pillar] of [Fire][By] night, to shew them [Light], and the way wherein they should go.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:20@ Thou gavest also thy good [Spirit] to instruct them, and withheldest not thy [Manna] from their mouth, and gavest them [Water] for their thirst.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:21@ Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the [Wilderness], [So] that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not [Old], and their feet swelled not.
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:9:35@ For they have not served thee in their [Kingdom], and in thy great [Goodness] that thou gavest them, and in the large and [Fat] land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked [Works].
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.
kjv@Nehemiah:9:38@ And because of all this we make a sure [Covenant], and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, [Seal] unto it.
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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