Nehemiah 1:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Please answer my prayer and the prayer of your other servants who gladly honour your name. When I serve the king his wine today, make him pleased with me and let him do what I ask.

Cross References

Genesis 24:42

When I came to the well today, I silently prayed, “You, LORD, are the God my master Abraham worships, so please lead me to a wife for his son

Genesis 32:11

Please rescue me from my brother. I am afraid he will come and attack not only me, but my wives and children as well.

Genesis 32:28

The man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob. You have wrestled with God and with men, and you have won. That's why your name will be Israel.”

Genesis 40:1

While Joseph was in prison, both the king's personal servant and his chief cook made the king angry. So he had them thrown into the same prison with Joseph.

Genesis 40:21

He put the personal servant back in his old job

Genesis 40:23

but the king's personal servant completely forgot about Joseph.

Genesis 41:9

The king's personal servant said: Now I remember what I was supposed to do.

Genesis 43:14

When you go in to see the governor, I pray that God All-Powerful will be good to you and that the governor will let your other brother and Benjamin come back home with you. If I must lose my children, I suppose I must.

2 Chronicles 6:40

LORD God, hear us when we pray in this temple.

Ezra 1:1

Years ago the LORD sent Jeremiah with a message about a promise for the people of Israel. Then in the first year that Cyrus was king of Persia, the LORD kept his promise by telling Cyrus to send this official message to all parts of his kingdom:

Nehemiah 1:6

I am your servant, so please have mercy on me and answer the prayer that I make day and night for these people of Israel who serve you. I, my family, and the rest of your people have sinned

Nehemiah 2:1

During the month of Nisan in the twentieth year that Artaxerxes was king, I served him his wine, as I had done before. But this was the first time I had ever looked depressed.

Nehemiah 2:8

I will need timber to rebuild the gates of the fortress near the temple and more timber to construct the city wall and to build a place for me to live. And so, I would appreciate a letter to Asaph, who is in charge of the royal forest.” God was good to me, and the king did everything I asked.

Psalm 106:46

that their enemies had pity on them.

Psalm 130:2

Won't you please listen as I beg for mercy?

Psalm 61:5

You heard my promises, and you have blessed me, just as you bless everyone who worships you.

Psalm 86:6

Please listen, LORD! Answer my prayer for help.

Proverbs 1:29

No, you would not learn, and you refused to respect the LORD.

Proverbs 21:1

The LORD controls rulers, just as he determines the course of rivers.

Jeremiah 42:12

and I will even force him to have mercy on you and give back your farms.

Malachi 3:16

All those who truly respected the LORD and honoured his name started discussing these things, and when God saw what was happening, he had their names written as a reminder in his book.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us. Our consciences are clear, and we always try to live right.