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Nehemiah 1:7

We have been seduced by vanity, and have not kept thy commandments, and ceremonies and judgments, which thou hast commanded thy servant Moses.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Country;   Intercession;   Law;   Nation;   Patriotism;   Prayer;   Repentance;   Sin;   Thompson Chain Reference - Nehemiah;   The Topic Concordance - Choosing/chosen;   Disobedience;   Israel/jews;   Jerusalem;   Name;   Obedience;   Servants;   Turning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Confession of Sin;   Prayer;   Prayer, Intercessory;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Preaching;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Confession;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fast, Fasting;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nehemiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Confession;   Fasting;   Isaiah, Book of;   Nehemiah;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Confession (of Sin);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;   Scripture;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;   Prayer;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
We have acted corruptly toward you and have not kept the commands, statutes, and ordinances you gave your servant Moses.
Hebrew Names Version
we have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the mitzvot, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moshe.
King James Version
We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
English Standard Version
We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.
New Century Version
We have been wicked toward you and have not obeyed the commands, rules, and laws you gave your servant Moses.
New English Translation
We have behaved corruptly against you, not obeying the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments that you commanded your servant Moses.
Amplified Bible
"We have acted very corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.
New American Standard Bible
"We have acted very corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.
World English Bible
we have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.
Geneva Bible (1587)
We haue grieuously sinned against thee, and haue not kept the commandements, nor the statutes, nor the iudgements, which thou commandedst thy seruant Moses.
Legacy Standard Bible
We have worked in utter destruction against You and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments which You commanded Your servant Moses.
Berean Standard Bible
We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.
Contemporary English Version
by choosing to disobey you and the laws and teachings you gave to your servant Moses.
Complete Jewish Bible
We have deeply offended you. We haven't observed the mitzvot, laws or rulings you ordered your servant Moshe.
Darby Translation
We have acted very perversely against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances that thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
Easy-to-Read Version
We Israelites have been very bad to you. We have not obeyed the commands, rules, and laws you gave your servant Moses.
George Lamsa Translation
And we have not kept all the commandments nor the statutes nor the ordinances which thou didst command thy servant Moses.
Good News Translation
We have acted wickedly against you and have not done what you commanded. We have not kept the laws which you gave us through Moses, your servant.
Lexham English Bible
We have certainly offended you and have not kept the commands, regulations, and judgments that you have commanded your servant Moses.
Literal Translation
Corrupting we have acted corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which You commanded Your servant Moses.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
We haue bene corrupte vnto the, in yt we haue not kepte the comaundementes, statutes & lawes, which thou comaundedst yi seruaunt Moses.
American Standard Version
we have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
Bible in Basic English
We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
We haue greeuously sinned against thee, and haue not kept thy commaundementes, statutes, and iudgementes, whiche thou commaundedst thy seruaunt Moyses.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
We have dealt very corruptly against Thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances which Thou didst command Thy servant Moses.
King James Version (1611)
We haue dealt very corruptly against thee, and haue not kept the commandements, nor the statutes, nor the iudgements, which thou commandedst thy seruant Moses.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
We have altogether broken covenant with thee, and we have not kept the commandments, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which thou didst command thy servant Moses.
English Revised Version
we have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and we `kepten not `thi comaundement, and cerymonyes, and domes, which thou comaundidist to Moises, thi seruaunt.
Update Bible Version
we have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your slave Moses.
Webster's Bible Translation
We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
New King James Version
We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.
New Living Translation
We have sinned terribly by not obeying the commands, decrees, and regulations that you gave us through your servant Moses.
New Life Bible
We have sinned in our actions against You. We have not kept the Laws which You gave to Your servant Moses.
New Revised Standard
We have offended you deeply, failing to keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances that you commanded your servant Moses.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
We have dealt, very corruptly, against thee, - and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes nor the regulations, which thou didst command Moses thy servant.
Revised Standard Version
We have acted very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which thou didst command thy servant Moses.
Young's Literal Translation
we have acted very corruptly against Thee, and have not kept the commands, and the statutes, and the judgments, that Thou didst command Moses Thy servant.
THE MESSAGE
"We've treated you like dirt: We haven't done what you told us, haven't followed your commands, and haven't respected the decisions you gave to Moses your servant. All the same, remember the warning you posted to your servant Moses: ‘If you betray me, I'll scatter you to the four winds, but if you come back to me and do what I tell you, I'll gather up all these scattered peoples from wherever they ended up and put them back in the place I chose to mark with my Name.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"We have acted very corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.

Contextual Overview

5 And I said: I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, strong, great, and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy with those that love thee, and keep thy commandments: 6 Let thy ears be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, night and day, for the children of Israel thy servants: and I confess the sins of the children of Israel, by which they have sinned against thee: I and my father’s house have sinned. 7 We have been seduced by vanity, and have not kept thy commandments, and ceremonies and judgments, which thou hast commanded thy servant Moses. 8 Remember the word that thou commandedst to Moses thy servant, saying: If you shall transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: 9 But if you return to me, and keep my commandments, and do them, though you should be led away to the uttermost parts of the world, I will gather you from thence, and bring you back to the place which I have chosen for my name to dwell there. 10 And these are thy servants, and thy people: whom thou hast redeemed by thy great strength, and by thy mighty hand. 11 I beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy name: and direct thy servant this day, and give him mercy before this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

dealt: Nehemiah 9:29-35, Psalms 106:6, Daniel 9:5, Daniel 9:6

corruptly: 2 Chronicles 27:2, Hosea 9:9, Zephaniah 3:7, Revelation 19:2

the commandments: Leviticus 27:34, Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 5:1, Deuteronomy 6:1, Deuteronomy 28:15, 1 Kings 2:3, Psalms 19:8, Psalms 19:9, Psalms 119:5-8

which thou: Deuteronomy 4:5, 2 Chronicles 25:4, Ezra 7:6, Daniel 9:11, Daniel 9:13, Malachi 4:4

Reciprocal: Leviticus 16:21 - confess over Amos 2:4 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament, Heaven; and the evening and morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:9
God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.
Genesis 1:11
And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.
Genesis 1:15
To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth, and it was so done.
Genesis 1:24
And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was so done.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
Genesis 1:29
And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat:
Job 26:8
He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so that they break not out and fall down together.
Psalms 104:10
(103-10) Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: between the midst of the hills the waters shall pass.
Psalms 148:4
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the heavens

Gill's Notes on the Bible

We have dealt very corruptly against thee,.... Corrupted his covenant, laws, and precepts, as well as themselves, ways, and works; all which were against the Lord, contrary to his nature, mind, and will:

and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses; the laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 1:7. Have not kept thy commandments — The moral precepts by which our lives should be regulated.

Statutes — What refers to the rites and ceremonies of thy religion.

Judgments — The precepts of justice relative to our conduct to each other.


 
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