Nehemiah 1:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Daniel 9:20

I was still confessing my sins and those of all Israel to the LORD my God, and I was praying for the good of his holy mountain,

Psalm 34:15

If you obey the LORD, he will watch over you and answer your prayers.

Psalm 106:6

We and our ancestors have sinned terribly.

2 Chronicles 29:6

Some of our ancestors were unfaithful and disobeyed the LORD our God. Not only did they turn their backs on the LORD, but they also completely ignored his temple.

2 Chronicles 6:40

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

Isaiah 6:5

Then I cried out, “I'm doomed! Everything I say is sinful, and so are the words of everyone around me. Yet I have seen the King, the LORD All-Powerful.”

1 John 1:9

But if we confess our sins to God, he can always be trusted to forgive us and take our sins away.

Luke 18:7

Won't God protect his chosen ones who pray to him day and night? Won't he be concerned for them?

2 Timothy 1:3

Night and day I mention you in my prayers. I am always grateful for you, as I pray to the God my ancestors and I have served with a clear conscience.

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned, but they are dead, and we are left to pay for their sins.

1 Timothy 5:5

A widow who is really in need is one who doesn't have any relatives. She has faith in God, and she keeps praying to him night and day, asking for his help.

Psalm 130:2

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

Psalm 55:17

Morning, noon, and night you hear my concerns and my complaints.

Psalm 32:5

So I confessed my sins and told them all to you. I said, “I'll tell the LORD each one of my sins.” Then you forgave me and took away my guilt.

Ezra 10:1

While Ezra was down on his knees in front of God's temple, praying with tears in his eyes, and confessing the sins of the people of Israel, a large number of men, women, and children gathered around him and cried bitterly.

Ephesians 2:3

Once we were also ruled by the selfish desires of our bodies and minds. We had made God angry, and we were going to be punished like everyone else.

Luke 2:37

And now she was eighty-four years old. Night and day she served God in the temple by praying and often going without eating.

Psalm 88:1

You keep me safe, LORD God. So when I pray at night,

Ezra 10:11

Now you must confess your sins to the LORD God of your ancestors and obey him. Divorce your foreign wives and don't have anything to do with the rest of the foreigners who live around here.

2 Chronicles 28:10

If you make slaves of the people of Judah and Jerusalem, you will be as guilty as they are of sinning against the LORD.

1 Samuel 15:11

“Saul has stopped obeying me, and I'm sorry that I made him king.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out in prayer to the LORD all night.

1 Kings 8:30

I am your servant, and the people of Israel belong to you. So whenever any of us look towards this temple and pray, answer from your home in heaven and forgive our sins.

1 Kings 8:47

Later, they may feel sorry for what they did and ask your forgiveness. Answer them when they pray towards this temple I have built for you in your chosen city, here in this land you gave their ancestors. From your home in heaven, listen to their sincere prayers and do what they ask.

Nehemiah 1:11

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.

Psalm 102:17

and the prayers of the homeless will be answered.

Daniel 9:5

But we have sinned terribly by rebelling against you and rejecting your laws and teachings.

Daniel 9:8

and even our kings, our officials, and our ancestors.

Daniel 9:15

Our Lord God, with your own mighty arm you rescued us from Egypt and made yourself famous to this very day, but we have sinned terribly.