Compassion Through Generations

22You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and allotted them to every corner. So they took possession of the land of Sihon, that is, the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

23You multiplied their children like the stars of the heavens, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.

24So the sons came in and took possession of the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, both their kings and the peoples of the land, to do with them according to their will.

25They captured fortified cities and fertile land, and took possession of houses full of every good thing, hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and grew fat, and they delighted themselves in your great goodness.

26But they acted presumptuously and rebelled against you, and they cast your law behind their backs. They killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to bring them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

27So you gave them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they cried out to you, and you heard from heaven; and according to your abundant mercies you gave them deliverers, who saved them from the hand of their adversaries.

28But when they had rest, they again did evil before you; so you left them in the power of their enemies, who ruled over them. Then they returned and cried out to you, and from heaven you heard and delivered them many times according to your mercies.

29You warned them in order to bring them back to your law, but they acted presumptuously and did not listen to your commandments; they sinned against your judgments, by which a man shall live if he does them. They gave a stubborn shoulder, stiffened their neck, and would not listen.

30For many years you were patient with them and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets, but they would not listen. So you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

31But in your abundant mercies you did not make an end of them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and compassionate God.