Catholic Public Domain Version
"O Lord, my God, remember against those who defile the priesthood and the law of the priests and the Levites! "
— Nehemiah 13:29, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.”
“Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. ”
“Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.”
“Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, and the Levites.”
“Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites.”
“Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.”
“Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.”
“Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin in this kind of thing? And certainly, among many nations, there was no king similar to him, and he was beloved of his God, and God set him as king over all of Israel. And yet foreign women led even him into sin!
So how could we disobey and do all this great evil, so that we would transgress against our God, and take foreign wives?”
Now one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the high priest, was a son-in-law to Sanballat, a Horonite, and I made him flee from me.
O Lord, my God, remember against those who defile the priesthood and the law of the priests and the Levites!
And so I cleansed them from all foreigners, and I established the orders of the priests and the Levites, each one in his ministry.
O my God, remember me also, for good, because of the offering of wood, at the appointed times, and because of the first-fruits. Amen.