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great blasphemies:

9:19. Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert:
the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in
the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which
they should go.

9:20. And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna
thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for
their thirst.

9:21. Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was
wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were
not worn.

9:22. And thou gavest them kingdoms, and nations, and didst divide lots
for them: and they possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of the king
of Hesebon, and the land of Og king of Basan.

9:23. And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and
broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their
fathers, that they should go in and possess it.

9:24. And the children came and possessed the land, and thou didst
humble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Chanaanites, and
gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the
land, that they might do with them as it pleased them.

9:25. And they took strong cities and a fat land, and possessed houses
full of all goods: cisterns made by others, vineyards, and oliveyards,
and fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and were filled, and became
fat, and abounded with delight in thy great goodness.

9:26. But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw
thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished
them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great
blasphemies.

9:27. And thou gavest them into the hands of their enemies, and they
afflicted them. And in the time of their tribulation they cried to thee,
and thou heardest from heaven, and according to the multitude of thy
tender mercies thou gavest them saviours, to save them from the hands of
their enemies.

9:28. But after they had rest, they returned to do evil in thy sight:
and thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies, and they had
dominion over them. Then they returned, and cried to thee: and thou
heardest from heaven, and deliveredst them many times in thy mercies.

9:29. And thou didst admonish them to return to thy law. But they dealt
proudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy
judgments, which if a man