Nehemiah 9:30

Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets . Yet they would not give ear . Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands .

For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets. Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets : yet would they not give ear : therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.