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Then the king said to me, "What are you requesting?" So I prayed to the God of heaven.

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O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." Now I was cupbearer to the king.

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highlighted Nehemiah 1:10 ESV

They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.

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highlighted Nehemiah 1:9 ESV

but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.'

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highlighted Nehemiah 1:8 ESV

Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples,

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highlighted Nehemiah 1:7 ESV

We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.

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highlighted Nehemiah 1:6 ESV

let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned.

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highlighted Nehemiah 1:5 ESV

And I said, "O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,

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highlighted Ezra 9:14 ESV

shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

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highlighted Ezra 9:13 ESV

And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,

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highlighted Ezra 8:23 ESV

So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

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highlighted Ezra 8:22 ESV

For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, "The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him."

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highlighted Ezra 8:21 ESV

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.

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highlighted Ezra 7:28 ESV

and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.

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highlighted Ezra 7:6 ESV

this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

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