"Howbeit thou {art} just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:" — Nehemiah 9:33

Nehemiah 9:33 · KJV

“Howbeit thou {art} just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:”

— Nehemiah 9:33

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. {trouble: Heb. weariness} {that...: Heb. that hath found us}

Verse 34

Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

Nehemiah 9 — Context

Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou {art} a gracious and merciful God.

Howbeit thou {art} just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

Cross References

Psalms 106:6

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Genesis 18:25

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Daniel 9:5-14

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

Job 34:23

For he will not lay upon man more {than right}; that he should enter into judgment with God. {enter: Heb. go}

Psalms 119:137

TZADDI. Righteous {art} thou, O LORD, and upright {are} thy judgments.

Psalms 145:17

The LORD {is} righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. {holy: or, merciful, or, bountiful}

Leviticus 26:40-41

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

Job 33:27

He looketh upon men, and {if any} say, I have sinned, and perverted {that which was} right, and it profited me not; {He...: or, He shall look upon men, and say}