Nehemiah 9:33
Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
Nehemiah 9:33 in other translations
| BSB | You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly. |
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| WEB | However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly. |
| ASV | Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly; |
| YLT | and Thou art righteous concerning all that hath come upon us, for truth Thou hast done, and we have done wickedly; |
| DARBY | But thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast acted according to truth, and we have done wickedly. |
| BBE | But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil: |
| Webster | But thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: |
What does Nehemiah 9:33 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 9:6-38
6-38. Thou, even thou, art Lord alone, &c.--In this solemn and impressive prayer, in which they make public confession of their sins, and deprecate the judgments due to the transgressions of their fathers, they begin with a profound adoration of God, whose supreme majesty and omnipotence is acknowledged in the creation, preservation, and government of all. Then they proceed to enumerate His mercies and distinguished…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nehemiah 9:4-38
The summary of their prayers we have here upon record. Much more, no doubt, was said. Whatever ability we have to do any thing in the way of duty, we are to serve and glorify God according to the utmost of it. When confessing our sins, it is good to notice the mercies of God, that we may be the more humbled and ashamed. The dealings of the Lord showed his goodness and long-suffering, and the hardness of their…
Nehemiah 9:33 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Nehemiah 9:33
- Psalms 106:6
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
- Daniel 9:5-14
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. …
- Genesis 18:25
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
- Job 34:23
For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
- Psalms 119:137
צ TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgments.
- Lamentations 1:18
The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
- Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
- Leviticus 26:40-41
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
- Psalms 145:17
The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
- Job 33:27
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
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Context
- Nehemiah 9:32
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
- Nehemiah 9:33
Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
- Nehemiah 9:34
Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
Nehemiah 9:33 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Tú empero eres justo en todo lo que ha venido sobre nosotros; porque rectamente has hecho, mas nosotros hemos hecho lo malo: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais tu es juste dans tout ce qui nous est survenu, car tu as agi avec vérité, et nous, nous avons agi méchamment. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Doch du bist gerecht in allem, was über uns gekommen ist; denn du hast nach der Wahrheit gehandelt, wir aber, wir haben gesetzlos gehandelt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et tu justus es in omnibus quæ venerunt super nos: quia veritatem fecisti, nos autem impie egimus. |