Catholic Public Domain Version
"Yet truly, they and our fathers acted arrogantly, and they hardened their necks, and they did not listen to your commandments. "
— Nehemiah 9:16, Catholic Public Domain Version
“But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,”
“But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments, ”
“"But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your commandments,”
““But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.”
“But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments.”
“But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,”
“But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,”
You also descended to mount Sinai, and you spoke with them from heaven. And you gave them upright judgments, and the law of truth, and ceremonies, and good precepts.
You revealed to them your sanctified Sabbath, and you instructed them in commandments, and ceremonies, and the law, by the hand of Moses, your servant.
You also gave them bread from heaven in their hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their thirst. And you said to them that they should enter and possess the land, over which you lifted up your hand so that you might give it to them.
Yet truly, they and our fathers acted arrogantly, and they hardened their necks, and they did not listen to your commandments.
And they were not willing to hear, and they did not remember, your miracles which you had accomplished for them. And they hardened their necks, and they offered their head, so that they would return to their servitude, as if in contention. But you, a forgiving God, lenient and merciful, longsuffering and full of compassion, did not abandon them.
Indeed, even when they had made for themselves a molten calf, and they had said, ‘This is your God, who led you away from Egypt!’ and had committed great blasphemies,
even so, in the multitude of your mercies, you did not send them away in the desert. The pillar of cloud did not withdraw from them by day, so that it might lead them on the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, so that it might show them the way along which they might advance.