New International Version

Nehemiah 9:11-16 New International Version (NIV)

11. You divided the sea before them, so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters.

12. By day you led them with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.

13. “You came down on Mount Sinai; you spoke to them from heaven. You gave them regulations and laws that are just and right, and decrees and commands that are good.

14. You made known to them your holy Sabbath and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses.

15. In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock; you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand to give them.

16. “But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked, and they did not obey your commands.