Nehemiah 1
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Nehemiah Prays for His People
1The words of #Neh. 10:1Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah.
It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the #Neh. 2:1twentieth year, as I was in #Esth. 1:1, 2, 5; Dan. 8:2Shushan the citadel, 2that #Neh. 7:2Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. 3And they said to me, “The survivors who are left from the captivity in the #Neh. 7:6province are there in great distress and #Neh. 2:17reproach. #Neh. 2:17The wall of Jerusalem #2 Kin. 25:10is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
4So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
5And I said: “I pray, #Dan. 9:4Lord God of heaven, O great and #Neh. 4:14awesome God, #(Ex. 20:6; 34:6, 7); Ps. 89:2, 3You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe Your commandments, 6please let Your ear be attentive and #1 Kin. 8:28, 29; 2 Chr. 6:40; Dan. 9:17, 18Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and #Ezra 10:1; Neh. 9:2; Dan. 9:20confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned. 7#Ps. 106:6; Dan. 9:5We have acted very corruptly against You, and have #Deut. 28:15not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses. 8Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, #Lev. 26:33; Deut. 4:25–27; 28:63–67‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations; 9#Lev. 26:39; (Deut. 4:29–31; 30:2–5)but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, #Deut. 30:4though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name.’ 10#Ex. 32:11; Deut. 9:29; Dan. 9:15Now these are Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand. 11O Lord, I pray, please #Neh. 1:6let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who #Is. 26:8; (Heb. 13:18)desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”
For I was the king’s #Gen. 40:21; Neh. 2:1cupbearer.
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