Neh 9:29-30, 34 | ESV | STEP | And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law . Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments , but sinned against your rules , which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey .

a[See ver. 26 above]

Nehemiah 9:29-30

29 ^aAnd you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet ^bthey acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, ^cwhich if a person does them, he shall live by them, ^dand they turned a stubborn shoulder ^eand stiffened their neck and would not obey. 30 Many years ^fyou bore with them ^gand warned them ^hby your Spirit through your prophets. ⁱYet they would not give ear. ^jTherefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

Nehemiah 9:34

34 Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.