Catholic Public Domain Version
"For you are just, concerning all things that have overwhelmed us. For you have done truth, but we have acted impiously. "
— Nehemiah 9:33, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:”
“Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly; ”
“However you are just in all that is come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;”
“You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong!”
“And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly.”
“But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:”
“Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:”
And you continued to forbear them for many years. And you contended with them by your Spirit, through the hand of your prophets. And they did not listen, and so you delivered them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Yet in your very many mercies, you did not cause them to be consumed, nor did you abandon them. For you are a compassionate and lenient God.
Now therefore, our great God, strong and terrible, who keeps covenant and mercy, may you not avert your face from all the hardship that has found us, we and our kings, and our leaders, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people, from the days of king Assur, even to this day.
For you are just, concerning all things that have overwhelmed us. For you have done truth, but we have acted impiously.
Our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our fathers have not done your law, and they have not been attentive to your commandments and your testimonies, to which you have testified among them.
And they have not served you, in their kingdoms and with your many good things, which you gave to them, and in the very wide and fat land, which you delivered into their sight, nor did they return from their most wicked pursuits.
Behold, we ourselves this day are servants. And the land, which you gave to our fathers so that they might eat its bread and have its good things, we ourselves are servants within it.