Nehemiah 9:16-18

Living Bible

¹⁶ but our ancestors were a proud and stubborn lot, and they refused to listen to your commandments.

¹⁷ “They refused to obey and didn’t pay any attention to the miracles you did for them; instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to take them back into slavery in Egypt! But you are a God of forgiveness, always ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and full of love and mercy; you didn’t abandon them, ¹⁸ even though they made a calf idol and proclaimed, ‘This is our God! He brought us out of Egypt!’ They sinned in so many ways,