Nehemiah 9:1-8

New King James Version

The People Confess Their Sins

9 Now on the twenty-fourth day of ^(A)this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, in sackcloth, ^(B)and with ^[a]dust on their heads. ²Then ^(C)those of Israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners; and they stood and ^(D)confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. ³And they stood up in their place and ^(E)read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for one-fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God.

⁴Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani stood on the ^[b]stairs of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to the Lord their God. ⁵And the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said:

“Stand up and bless the Lord your God
Forever and ever!

“Blessed be ^(F)Your glorious name,
Which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
⁶^(G)You alone are the Lord;
^(H)You have made heaven,
^(I)The heaven of heavens, with ^(J)all their host,
The earth and everything on it,
The seas and all that is in them,
And You ^(K)preserve them all.
The host of heaven worships You.

⁷“You are the Lord God,
Who chose ^(L)Abram,
And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans,
And gave him the name ^(M)Abraham;
⁸You found his heart ^(N)faithful before You,
And made a ^(O)covenant with him
To give the land of the Canaanites,
The Hittites, the Amorites,
The Perizzites, the Jebusites,
And the Girgashites—
To give it to his descendants.
You ^(P)have performed Your words,
For You are righteous.