Nehemiah 9:29-31

29 And ¹admonished them in order to turn them back to Your law. Yet ²they acted arrogantly and did not listen to Your commandments but sinned against Your ordinances, By ³which if a man observes them he shall live. And they ⁴turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck, and would not listen.

30 "⁵However, You bore with them for many years, And ⁶admonished them by ⁷Your Spirit through Your prophets, Yet they would not give ear. Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

31 "Nevertheless, in Your great compassion You ⁸did not make an end of them or forsake them, For You are ⁹a gracious and compassionate God.

Nehemiah 9:29-31 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.

Cross References

• 1. Nehemiah 9:26, 30
• 2. Nehemiah 9:10, 16
• 3. Leviticus 18:5
• 4. Zechariah 7:11
• 5. Psalms 95:10; Acts 13:18
• 6. 2 Kings 17:13-18; 2 Chronicles 36:15, 16; Nehemiah 9:26, 29
• 7. Nehemiah 9:20
• 8. Jeremiah 4:27
• 9. Nehemiah 9:17

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "gave"