NEHEMIAH: 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, 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. We
have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes,
and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses. Remember the word that you
commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter
you among the peoples, 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.’ They are your servants and your
people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. 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.
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