Nehemiah 9:9
King James VersionSource notes
“And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;”
Context
6Thou, thou, LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all that therein, the seas, and all that therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
7Thou the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
8And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou righteous:
9And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
10And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as this day.
11And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
12Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.