Nehemiah 1:11

Nehemiah's Prayer

¹⁰ They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and strong hand. ¹¹ Please, Lord, let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and to that of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success today, and have compassion on him in the presence of this man.

At the time, I was the king’s cupbearer.

Fear Your Name

Have Mercy

Hear My Prayer

In Those Days

Take Pleasure In

Jehovah

Mark

Persia

Nehemiah 1:6

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

Nehemiah 2:1

During 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 40:21

Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position as cupbearer, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.

Genesis 32:11

Please rescue me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.

Genesis 32:28

“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” He said. “It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Genesis 40:2

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

Genesis 40:9-13

So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: “In my dream there was a vine in front of me.

Genesis 40:23

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.

Genesis 41:9

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I remember my faults.

Genesis 43:14

May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived.”

Ezra 1:1

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, the word of the Lord spoken through Jeremiah was fulfilled. The Lord put it into the mind of King Cyrus to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and to put it in writing:

Ezra 7:6

—came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested because the hand of Yahweh his God was on him.

Ezra 7:27-28

Praise Yahweh the God of our fathers, who has put it into the king’s mind to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem,

Nehemiah 2:8

And let me have a letter written to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to rebuild the gates of the temple’s fortress, the city wall, and the home where I will live.” The king granted my requests, for I was graciously strengthened by my God.

Psalm 86:6

Lord, hear my prayer;
listen to my plea for mercy.

Psalm 130:2

Lord, listen to my voice;
let Your ears be attentive
to my cry for help.

Proverbs 1:29

Because they hated knowledge,
didn’t choose to fear the Lord,

Proverbs 21:1

A king’s heart is like streams of water in the Lord’s hand:
He directs it wherever He chooses.

Isaiah 26:8-9

Yes, Yahweh, we wait for You
in the path of Your judgments.
Our desire is for Your name and renown.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us; for we are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything.