Nehemiah 9:25-27

New Catholic Bible

²⁵ They captured fortified towns and fertile land;
    they took possession of houses
    filled with all kinds of good things,
cisterns already dug, vineyards,
    olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance.
They ate and had their fill, grew fat,
    and found delight in your great goodness.
²⁶ “Nevertheless they grew disobedient,
    rebelled against you,
    and cast your law behind their backs.
They also killed your prophets
    who bore witness against them
to bring them back to you,
    while they committed great blasphemies.
²⁷ Therefore, you delivered them
    into the power of their enemies
    who caused them to suffer greatly.
But when they would cry out to you
    in the midst of their oppression,
from heaven you heard them,
    and in your great compassion
you would send them saviors
    to deliver them from the clutches
    of their oppressors.