Nehemiah 9:18-25

Thomson(i) 18 Even before this, though they made themselves a molten calf and said, These are the gods which brought us up out of Egypt, and committed great provocations; 19 yet thou through thy manifold mercies didst not leave them in the wilderness. Thou didst not withdraw from them by day the pillar of a cloud which was to guide them in the way, nor the pillar of fire, at night, which was to illumine the way for them in which they should go; 20 but gavest thy good spirit to instruct them; and not withholding thy manna from their mouth, thou gavest them water when they were athirst. 21 Thus didst thou sustain them forty years in the wilderness, not suffering them to want any thing. Their clothes did not wear out, nor were their feet galled. 22 Then thou gavest them kingdoms, and didst divide peoples among them; so they took possession of the land of Seon king of Esebon, and of the land of Og king of Basan. 23 And having multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, thou broughtest them into the land which thou hadst promised their fathers; and they took possession of it. 24 But when thou hadst subdued before them the inhabitants of the land of the Chananites, and delivered them into their hands; both the kings and the people of the land, to do with them as they thought fit; 25 and they had taken lofty cities, and got possession of houses filled with all good things, of cisterns ready hewn out of stone, of vineyards and olive yards, and all sorts of fruit trees in abundance, and had eaten and were filled, and became fat, they rioted on thy great bounty,