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Nehemiah 1:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But if you return to me and carefully observe my commands, even though your exiles were banished to the farthest horizon,  I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I chose to have my name dwell.’

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I will certainly gather them from all the lands where I have banished them in my anger, fury, and intense wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them live in safety.


He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet,   and they will gather his elect from the four winds,   from one end of the sky to the other.


After I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion  on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.


This is the declaration of the Lord God, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: ‘I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.’


May the God who caused his name to dwell there  overthrow any king or people who dares  to harm or interfere with this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out diligently.


Instead, turn to the place the Lord your God chooses  from all your tribes to put his name for his dwelling and go there.


‘ “For I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.


Nations, hear the word of the  Lord, and tell it among the far off coasts and islands! Say, ‘The one who scattered Israel will gather him. He will watch over him as a shepherd guards his flock,


He will lift up a banner for the nations and gather the dispersed of Israel; he will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.


The Lord said to him: I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put  my name there for ever;  my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.


‘ “Return, you faithless children   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #for I am your master,  , and I will take you,  one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.


And say,  ‘Save us, God of our salvation; gather us and rescue us from the nations so that we may give thanks to your holy name and rejoice in your praise.


If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock he has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your city gates whenever you want.


and when they return to you with all their heart and all their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to you in the direction of their land that you gave their ancestors, the city which you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,


On that day the Lord will thresh corn from the River Euphrates as far as the Wadi of Egypt, and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.


This is what the Lord says: Look,  an army is coming from a northern land; a great nation will be stirred up from the remote regions of the earth.


‘Therefore, say to the house of Israel, “This is what the Lord God says: Repent and turn away  from your idols; turn your faces away from all your detestable things.


‘If you follow my statutes and faithfully observe my commands,


‘When all these things happen to you #– #the blessings and curses I have set before you #– #and you come to your senses while you are in all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,


The Lord of Armies says this: ‘I will save my people from the land of the east and the land of the west.





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