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Nehemiah chapter 9 verses and 34.

Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.

Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention

to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them. These verses come in the end, near the end, of a long prayer of confession

among the people of God before him as they are acknowledging God's faithfulness

to them and their unfaithfulness to him. What strikes me when you get to verse 33 and they're praying and confessing

sins really of their fathers before them that have led to the destruction of

Jerusalem and exile in Babylon.

But when you get to verse 33 and these people are confessing sin,

they say,

yet you have been righteous and all that has come upon us,

for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.

And so then when they're talking about the sins of our fathers they're not

just saying they have acted wicked like those who went before us who caused this destruction of the city of Jerusalem and led to the exile

I mean you could hear them almost in a self-righteous way saying yeah they send and they brought this about but now here we are we're seeking you

But that's not what they do as they pray they they put themselves in this picture

We have acted wickedly against you not they have we have it's the same

thing we see if you look back in ne am i chapter one when ne am i appraise i mean he's not even

in Jerusalem at that point and he says we have sinned against you there's a picture here just

like we see in the Lord's prayer when Jesus to praise is our father in heaven,

there's not just an individual picture in prayer,

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