Nehemiah 9:30
Yet many years didst you forbear them, and testifiedst against them by your spirit in your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest you them into the hand of the people of the lands.
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28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before you: therefore leftest you them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto you, you heardest from heaven; and many times didst you deliver them according to your mercies;
29 And testifiedst against them, that you mightest bring them again unto your law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto your commandments, but sinned against your judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
30 Yet many years didst you forbear them, and testifiedst against them by your spirit in your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest you them into the hand of the people of the lands.
31 Nevertheless for your great mercies' sake you didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for you a gracious and merciful Elohim.
32 Now therefore, our Elohim, the great, the mighty, and the terrible Elohim, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before you, that has come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.