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November 445 B.C. Lest
we forget. Nehemiah 1.2, his covenantal
considerations and covenantal prayers for Jerusalem. Nehemiah 1.5-9:
5 And I said: “I pray, Lord God of heaven, O great and awesome
God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You
and observe Your commandments, 6 please let Your ear be attentive
and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray
before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and
confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You.
Both my father’s house and I have sinned. 7 We have acted very
corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor
the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses. 8 Remember,
I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you
are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations; 9 but if
you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you were
cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them
from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for
My name.’ 10 Now these are Your servants and Your
people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand. 11 O
Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant,
and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your
servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this
man.”
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