Nehemiah 9:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham; ⁸ and you found his heart faithful before you, and made with him a covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite; and you have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.

⁹ “And you saw the distress of our ancestors in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.^[a]