(A)but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been scattered were in the most remote part of the heavens, I (B)will gather them from there and bring them (C)to the place where I have chosen to have My name dwell.’ 10 (D)They are Your servants and Your people whom You redeemed by Your great power and by Your strong hand. 11 Please, Lord, (E)may Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and the prayer of Your servants who delight to [a]revere Your name, and please make Your servant successful today and grant him mercy before this man.”

Now I was the (F)cupbearer to the king.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 1:11 Or fear

but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather(A) them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’(B)

10 “They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand.(C) 11 Lord, let your ear be attentive(D) to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor(E) in the presence of this man.”

I was cupbearer(F) to the king.

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