(A)Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were untrue to the Lord God of their fathers, so that (B)He made them an object of horror, just as you see.

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Do not be like your parents(A) and your fellow Israelites, who were unfaithful(B) to the Lord, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them an object of horror,(C) as you see.

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The [a](A)descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and they stood and (B)confessed their sins and the wrongdoings of their fathers.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:2 Lit seed

Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners.(A) They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors.(B)

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And (A)not be like their fathers,
A (B)stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that (C)did not [a]prepare its heart
And whose spirit was not (D)faithful to God.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 78:8 Or put right

They would not be like their ancestors(A)
    a stubborn(B) and rebellious(C) generation,
whose hearts were not loyal to God,
    whose spirits were not faithful to him.

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57 But turned back and (A)acted treacherously like their fathers;
They (B)turned aside like a treacherous bow.

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57 Like their ancestors(A) they were disloyal and faithless,
    as unreliable as a faulty bow.(B)

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“Do not be (A)like your fathers, to whom the (B)former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘This is what the Lord of armies says: “(C)Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.”’ But they did (D)not listen or pay attention to Me,” declares the Lord.

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Do not be like your ancestors,(A) to whom the earlier prophets(B) proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways(C) and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me,(D) declares the Lord.(E)

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