Nehemiah 1:8-11

New King James Version

⁸ Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ^(A)‘If you ^[a]are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations; ^9 (B)but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, ^(C)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 (D)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 ^(E)let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who ^(F)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 ^(G)cupbearer.