Nehemiah 1:11

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Nehemiah 1:9–11 · Berean Standard Bible

9 but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’

10 They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.

11 O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)

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Nehemiah 1:6

let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

Psalms 86:6

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and attend to my plea for mercy.

Psalms 130:2

O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

Proverbs 1:29

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Isaiah 26:8

Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.

Isaiah 26:9

My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.

Nehemiah 2:8

And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.

Genesis 32:11

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

Genesis 32:28

Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

Genesis 43:14

May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”

Ezra 1:1

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:

Ezra 7:6

this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted Ezra all his requests, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.

Ezra 7:27

Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,

Ezra 7:28

and who has shown me favor before the king, his counselors, and all his powerful officials. And because the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, I took courage and gathered the leaders of Israel to return with me.

Proverbs 21:1

The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.

Nehemiah 2:1

Now in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,

Genesis 40:2

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

Genesis 40:9

So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,

Genesis 40:10

and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.

Genesis 40:11

Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand.”

Genesis 40:12

Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.

Genesis 40:13

Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.

Genesis 40:21

Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.

Genesis 40:23

The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.

Genesis 41:9

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.