Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But for thy great mercies' sake thou hast not utterly consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
New American Standard Bible
For You are
King James Version
Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
Holman Bible
You did not destroy them or abandon them,
for You are a gracious and compassionate God.
International Standard Version
Nevertheless, in your great compassion you did not completely destroy them or abandon them, because you are a God of grace and you are merciful.
A Conservative Version
Nevertheless in thy manifold mercies thou did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them, for thou are a gracious and merciful God.
American Standard Version
Nevertheless in thy manifold mercies thou didst not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
Amplified
“Yet in Your great compassion You did not utterly destroy them or abandon them,
For You are a gracious and merciful God.
Bible in Basic English
Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you are a God of grace and mercy.
Darby Translation
Nevertheless for thy manifold mercies' sake, thou didst not make a full end of them nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
Julia Smith Translation
And in thy many compassions thou madest them not a finishing, and thou didst not forsake them; for thou a God merciful and compassionate.
King James 2000
Nevertheless for your great mercies' sake you did not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But in your great compassions you did not put an end to them, and you did not abandon them. For you are a gracious and compassionate God.
Modern King James verseion
But for Your great mercies, You did not completely destroy them nor forsake them. For You are a gracious and merciful God.
NET Bible
However, due to your abundant mercy you did not do away with them altogether; you did not abandon them. For you are a merciful and compassionate God.
New Heart English Bible
"Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
The Emphasized Bible
Yet, in thine abounding compassions, thou didst not make of them an end, neither didst thou forsake them, - for, a GOD gracious and full of compassion, thou art.
Webster
Nevertheless, for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
World English Bible
"Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Youngs Literal Translation
and in Thine abundant mercies Thou hast not made them a consumption, nor hast forsaken them; for a God, gracious and merciful, art Thou.
Themes
Evil » The reward for doing evil
Forgiveness » Examples of divine
Interlinear
Rab
Kalah
`azab
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nehemiah 9:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Rebellion
30 And many years didst thou forbear them, and testified unto them through thy spirit, even by the office of thy prophets, and yet would they not hear. Therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the nations in the lands. 31 But for thy great mercies' sake thou hast not utterly consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and merciful God. 32 Now our God, thou great God, mighty and terrible, thou that keepest covenant and mercy, regard not a little all the travail that hath happened unto us, and our kings, princes, priests, prophets, fathers and all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:27
For thus hath the LORD said, "The whole land shall be desolate, yet will I not then have done.
Nehemiah 9:17
and refused to hear, and were not mindful of the wonders that thou didst for them: but became obstinate and heady insomuch that they turned back to their bondage in their disobedience. But thou, my God, forgavest, and wast gracious, merciful, patient, and of great goodness, and forsookest them not.
Jeremiah 5:10
"Climb up upon their walls, beat them down, but destroy them not utterly: cut off their branches because they are not the LORD's.
Jeremiah 5:18
Nevertheless, I will not then have done with you, sayeth the LORD.
Exodus 34:6-7
And when the LORD walked before him, he cried, "LORD, LORD God full of compassion and mercy, which art not lightly angry but abundant in mercy and truth,
2 Kings 13:23
But the LORD had mercy on them and pitied them and turned to them because of his covenant made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and would not destroy them, either cast them from him as yet.
2 Chronicles 30:9
For if ye turn unto the LORD, then your brethren and your children shall find compassion in the presence of them that hold them captive, that they may come again unto this land: for the LORD your God is full of mercy and compassion, and will not turn his face from you, if ye turn again to him."
Psalm 103:8-9
The LORD is full of compassion and mercy; longsuffering, and of great goodness.
Psalm 145:8-9
The LORD is gracious and merciful, long-suffering and of great goodness.
Lamentations 3:22
{Khet} Namely, that the mercies of the LORD are not clean gone, and that his loving-kindness ceaseth not.
Ezekiel 14:22-23
yet shall there be a remnant saved therein, which shall bring forth their sons and daughters. Behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way, and what they take in hand, and ye shall be comforted, as touching all the plagues that I have brought upon Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:9
But unto thee O LORD our God, pertaineth mercy and forgiveness. As for us, we are gone back from him,