¹¹ Then Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”

¹¹ O Lord, I pray, please ^(A)let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who ^(B)desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”

For I was the king’s ^(C)cupbearer.

Nehemiah Sent to Judah

2 And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of ^(D)King ^[a]Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, that ^(E)I took the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence before.

⁴ the food on his table, the seating of his servants, the service of his waiters and their apparel, his ^(A)cupbearers and their apparel, and his entryway by which he went up to the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

⁵ the food on his table, the seating of his servants, the service of his waiters and their apparel, his cupbearers, ^(A)and his entryway by which he went up to the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

^9 (A)“Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations,

²¹ Then he ^(A)restored the chief butler to his butlership again, and ^(B)he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.