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1 The story of Nehemiah, the son of Hakaliah.
It was in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, when I was at the citadel of Susa, 2 that Hanani, one of my kinsmen, came to me, along with some men from Judah. I asked them about the Judaean remnant who had survived the exile and also about Jerusalem. 3 “The survivors of the exile in the province there,” they told me, “suffer great misery and oppression; also, the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates have been burned with fire.”
4 When I heard this, I sat down and wept and mourned for some days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven. 5 I said, “O Eternal, God of heaven, the great and awful God, carrying out his compact of kindness for those who love him and carry out his orders, 6 may thine ear now be attentive and thine eyes open to listen to the prayer of thy servant, which I offer before thee at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, confessing the sins which the children of Israel have committed against thee. We have sinned, I and my father’s house. 7 Deeply have we wronged thee; we have not kept the commands or the rules or the regulations which thou didst issue to thy servant Moses. 8 Ah, remember thy charge to thy servant Moses: ‘If you deal treacherously, I will scatter you far and wide among the nations; 9 but if you return to me and keep my commands and do them, then, even though your outcasts were under distant skies, I will gather them in and bring them to the place where I have chosen to fix my presence.’ 10 Now these are thy servants and thy people whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power and by thy strong hand. 11 Ah, Lord, may thine ear now n be attentive to the prayer of thy servant and to the prayer of thy servants who delight to reverence thy Name. Ah, let thy servant have success at this time, let him find favour in the sight of this man!” (for I was a cupbearer to the king).