~ forsookest them not ~ , 16_NEH_09_17  And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage, but thou [art] a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not. #, 16_NEH_09_19  Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness, the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go. #,