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1On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and having dust on their heads.
2Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the wickedness of their fathers.
3They stood where they were and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day, and spent another quarter in confession1 and in worshiping the Lord their God.
4Standing on the stairs were the Levites-Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani and Kenani-who called with loud voices to the Lord their God.
5And the Levites-Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah-said: "Stand up and praise the Lord your God, who is from everlasting2 to everlasting. " "Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted3 above all blessing4 and praise.
6You alone are the Lord . You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry5 host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.
7"You are the Lord God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.
8You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant6 with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. You have kept your promise because you are righteous.
9"You saw the suffering of our forefathers7 in Egypt; you heard their cry at the Red Sea.
10You sent miraculous8 signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his officials and all the people of his land, for you knew how arrogantly10 the Egyptians treated them. You made a name for yourself, which remains11 to this day.
11You divided the sea before them, so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled12 their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty13 waters.
12By day you led them with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.
13"You came down on Mount Sinai; you spoke14 to them from heaven. You gave them regulations and laws that are just and right, and decrees and commands that are good.
14You made known to them your holy Sabbath and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses.
15In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock; you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand to give them.
16"But they, our forefathers, became arrogant9 and stiff-necked, and did not obey your commands.
17They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate16, slow to anger and abounding17 in love. Therefore you did not desert them,
18even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf18 and said, 'This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,' or when they committed awful blasphemies19.
19"Because of your great compassion15 you did not abandon them in the desert. By day the pillar of cloud did not cease to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take.
20You gave your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold20 your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.
21For forty years you sustained them in the desert; they lacked nothing, their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen21.
22"You gave them kingdoms and nations, allotting22 to them even the remotest frontiers. They took over the country of Sihon king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan.
23You made their sons as numerous as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their fathers to enter and possess.
24Their sons went in and took possession of the land. You subdued23 before them the Canaanites, who lived in the land; you handed the Canaanites over to them, along with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with them as they pleased.
25They captured fortified24 cities and fertile land; they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves25 and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished; they reveled in your great goodness.
26"But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they put your law behind their backs. They killed your prophets, who had admonished26 them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.
27So you handed them over to their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.
28"But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion you delivered them time after time.
29"You warned them to return to your law, but they became arrogant and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances27, by which a man will live if he obeys them. Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen.
30For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you admonished them through your prophets. Yet they paid no attention, so you handed them over to the neighboring peoples.
31But in your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
32"Now therefore, O our God, the great, mighty and awesome28 God, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling29 in your eyes-the hardship that has come upon us, upon our kings and leaders, upon our priests and prophets, upon our fathers and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
33In all that has happened to us, you have been just; you have acted faithfully, while we did wrong.
34Our kings, our leaders, our priests and our fathers did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the warnings you gave them.
35Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness to them in the spacious30 and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you or turn from their evil ways.
36"But see, we are slaves today, slaves in the land you gave our forefathers so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces.
37Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress31.
38"In view of all this, we are making a binding32 agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing33 their seals to it."
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confession
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| n.自白，供认，承认 | |
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everlasting
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| adj.永恒的，持久的，无止境的 | |
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exalted
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| adj.(地位等)高的，崇高的；尊贵的，高尚的 | |
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blessing
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| n.祈神赐福；祷告；祝福，祝愿 | |
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starry
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covenant
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| n.盟约，契约；v.订盟约 | |
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forefathers
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miraculous
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| adj.像奇迹一样的，不可思议的 | |
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arrogant
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arrogantly
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remains
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hurled
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mighty
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| adj.强有力的；巨大的 | |
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spoke
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| n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说 | |
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compassion
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| n.同情，怜悯 | |
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compassionate
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abounding
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| adj.丰富的，大量的v.大量存在，充满，富于( abound的现在分词 ) | |
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calf
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| n.小牛，犊，幼仔，小牛皮 | |
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blasphemies
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| n.对上帝的亵渎，亵渎的言词[行为]( blasphemy的名词复数 )；侮慢的言词（或行为） | |
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withhold
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swollen
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| adj.肿大的，水涨的；v.使变大，肿胀 | |
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allotting
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| 分配，拨给，摊派( allot的现在分词 ) | |
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subdued
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fortified
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groves
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admonished
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| v.劝告( admonish的过去式和过去分词 )；训诫；（温和地）责备；轻责 | |
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ordinances
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| n.条例，法令( ordinance的名词复数 ) | |
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awesome
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| adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的 | |
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trifling
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| adj.微不足道的；没什么价值的 | |
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spacious
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| adj.广阔的，宽敞的 | |
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distress
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| n.苦恼，痛苦，不舒适；不幸；vt.使悲痛 | |
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binding
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| 有约束力的，有效的，应遵守的 | |
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affixing
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| v.附加( affix的现在分词 )；粘贴；加以；盖（印章） | |
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