Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Our kings, our leaders, our priests and our ancestors did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the statutes you warned them to keep. New Living Translation Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestors did not obey your Law or listen to the warnings in your commands and laws. English Standard Version Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them. Berean Standard Bible Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them. King James Bible 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. New King James Version Neither our kings nor our princes, Our priests nor our fathers, Have kept Your law, Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies, With which You testified against them. New American Standard Bible “For our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our fathers have not kept Your Law Or paid attention to Your commandments and Your admonitions with which You have admonished them. NASB 1995 “For our kings, our leaders, our priests and our fathers have not kept Your law Or paid attention to Your commandments and Your admonitions with which You have admonished them. NASB 1977 “For our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our fathers have not kept Thy law Or paid attention to Thy commandments and Thine admonitions with which Thou hast admonished them. Legacy Standard Bible Now our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers did not do Your law Or pay attention to Your commandments and Your testimonies with which You testified against them. Amplified Bible “Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept Your law Or paid attention to Your commandments and Your warnings which You have given them. Christian Standard Bible Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestors did not obey your law or listen to your commands and warnings you gave them. Holman Christian Standard Bible Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestors did not obey Your law or listen to Your commands and warnings You gave them. American Standard Version 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Neither have our Kings and our Princes and our Priests and their fathers performed your Law, neither have they paid attention to your commandments or to your testimonies which you testified before them. Brenton Septuagint Translation And our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our fathers, have not performed thy law, and have not given heed to thy commandments, and have not kept thy testimonies which thou didst testify to them. Contemporary English Version Our kings and leaders, our priests and ancestors have never obeyed your commands or heeded your warnings. Douay-Rheims Bible Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them. English Revised Version 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestors didn't obey your teachings. They didn't pay attention to your commandments or the warnings that you gave them. Good News Translation Our ancestors, our kings, leaders, and priests have not kept your Law. They did not listen to your commands and warnings. International Standard Version Furthermore, neither our kings, nor our leaders, nor our priests nor our ancestors have practiced your Law or paid attention to your commands and warnings by which you admonished them. JPS Tanakh 1917 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. Literal Standard Version And our kings, our heads, | Our priests, and our fathers, | Have not done Your law, | Nor attended to Your commands, | And to Your testimonies, | That You have testified against them; Majority Standard Bible Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them. New American Bible Yes, our kings, our princes, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law; They paid no attention to your commandments and the warnings which you gave them. NET Bible Our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law. They have not paid attention to your commandments or your testimonies by which you have solemnly admonished them. New Revised Standard Version our kings, our officials, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law or heeded the commandments and the warnings that you gave them. New Heart English Bible neither have our kings, our leaders, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them. Webster's Bible Translation Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened to thy commandments and thy testimonies, with which thou didst testify against them. World English Bible Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them. Young's Literal Translation and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The People Confess Their Sins…33You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly. 34 Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them. 35For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.… Cross References Nehemiah 9:33 You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly. Nehemiah 9:35 For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways. Jeremiah 44:17 Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster. Treasury of Scripture Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies, with which you did testify against them. nor hearkened. Jeremiah 29:19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD. thy testimonies. Nehemiah 9:30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. 2 Kings 17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. thou didst. Deuteronomy 31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. 2 Kings 17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Jump to Previous Admonished Attended Attention Commandments Fathers Follow Heads Hearkened Heeded Kept Kings Law Orders Paid Performed Priests Princes Testified Testify Testimonies Warnings Wherewith WitnessJump to Next Admonished Attended Attention Commandments Fathers Follow Heads Hearkened Heeded Kept Kings Law Orders Paid Performed Priests Princes Testified Testify Testimonies Warnings Wherewith WitnessNehemiah 9 1. A solemn fast, and repentance of the people4. The Levites make a confession of God's goodness, and their wickedness (34) Our kings.--Note that the prophets are omitted in this enumeration.Verse 34. - Thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. i.e. the testimony borne by the prophets (see ver. 30). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Our kingsמְלָכֵ֤ינוּ (mə·lā·ḵê·nū) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural Strong's 4428: A king and leaders שָׂרֵ֙ינוּ֙ (śā·rê·nū) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural Strong's 8269: Chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince and priests כֹּהֲנֵ֣ינוּ (kō·hă·nê·nū) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural Strong's 3548: Priest and fathers וַאֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ (wa·’ă·ḇō·ṯê·nū) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural Strong's 1: Father did not לֹ֥א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no obey עָשׂ֖וּ (‘ā·śū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 6213: To do, make Your law תּוֹרָתֶ֑ךָ (tō·w·rā·ṯe·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law or listen הִקְשִׁ֙יבוּ֙ (hiq·šî·ḇū) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 7181: To prick up the ears, hearken to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to Your commandments מִצְוֺתֶ֔יךָ (miṣ·wō·ṯe·ḵā) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 4687: Commandment and warnings וּלְעֵ֣דְוֺתֶ֔יךָ (ū·lə·‘ê·ḏə·wō·ṯe·ḵā) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 5715: Testimony that אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that You gave הַעִידֹ֖תָ (ha·‘î·ḏō·ṯā) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 5749: To duplicate, repeat, to protest, testify, to encompass, restore them. בָּהֶֽם׃ (bā·hem) Preposition | third person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew Links Nehemiah 9:34 NIVNehemiah 9:34 NLT Nehemiah 9:34 ESV Nehemiah 9:34 NASB Nehemiah 9:34 KJV Nehemiah 9:34 BibleApps.com Nehemiah 9:34 Biblia Paralela Nehemiah 9:34 Chinese Bible Nehemiah 9:34 French Bible Nehemiah 9:34 Catholic Bible OT History: Nehemiah 9:34 Neither have our kings our princes our (Neh Ne) |