Nehemiah 9:31-38

31 "Nevertheless, in Your great compassion You ¹did not make an end of them or forsake them, For You are ²a gracious and compassionate God.

32 "Now therefore, our God, ³the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness, Do not let all the hardship seem insignificant before You, Which has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people, ⁴From the days of the kings of Assyria to this day.

33 "However, ⁵You are just in all that has come upon us; For You have dealt faithfully, but we have acted wickedly.

34 "For our kings, our leaders, our priests and our fathers have not kept Your law Or paid attention to Your commandments and Your admonitions with which You have admonished them.

35 "But ⁶they, in their own kingdom, ⁷With Your great goodness which You gave them, With the broad and rich land which You set before them, Did not serve You or turn from their evil deeds.

36 "Behold, ⁸we are slaves today, And as to the land which You gave to our fathers to eat of its fruit and its bounty, Behold, we are slaves in it.

37 "⁹Its abundant produce is for the kings Whom You have set over us because of our sins; They also rule over our bodies And over our cattle as they please, So we are in great distress.

A Covenant Results

38 "Now because of all this ¹⁰We are making an agreement in writing; And on the ¹¹sealed document are the names of our leaders, our Levites and our priests."

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Nehemiah 9:31-38 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NEHEMIAH 9

In this chapter we have an account of a fast kept by the Jews, which was observed, as by outward acts of humiliation, so by confession of sin, reading the law, and worshipping the Lord, Ne 9:1-3 and of a long prayer that the Levites made, in which they celebrate the divine perfections, take notice of various instances of the goodness of God to the people of Israel, acknowledge their manifold transgressions, observe the Lord's correction of them for them, in which they own he was righteous, Ne 9:4-38.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

1. Jeremiah 4:27
2. Nehemiah 9:17
3. Nehemiah 1:5
4. 2 Kings 15:19, 29; 2 Kings 17:3-6; Ezra 4:2, 10
5. Genesis 18:25; Jeremiah 12:1
6. Deuteronomy 28:47
7. Nehemiah 9:25
8. Deuteronomy 28:48
9. Deuteronomy 28:33
10. Nehemiah 10:29
11. Nehemiah 10:1

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "testimonies"
[b]. Or "witnessed"
[c]. Ch 10:1 in Heb