Nehemiah 9:25-27
New Catholic Bible
25 They captured fortified towns and fertile land;
they took possession of houses
filled with all kinds of good things,
cisterns already dug, vineyards,
olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance.
They ate and had their fill, grew fat,
and found delight in your great goodness.
26 “Nevertheless they grew disobedient,
rebelled against you,
and cast your law behind their backs.
They also killed your prophets
who bore witness against them
to bring them back to you,
while they committed great blasphemies.
27 Therefore, you delivered them
into the power of their enemies
who caused them to suffer greatly.
But when they would cry out to you
in the midst of their oppression,
from heaven you heard them,
and in your great compassion
you would send them saviors
to deliver them from the clutches
of their oppressors.