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their bondage: but thou
art
a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of
great kindness, and forsookest them not.
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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;
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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.
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.
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.
22
Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst
divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon,
and the land of Og king of Bashan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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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.
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.
31
Nevertheless
for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou
art
a
gracious and merciful God.
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.
33
Howbeit thou
art
just in
all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
34
Neither have
our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy
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