Nehemiah 1:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man!” At the time, I was cupbearer to the king.

Cross References

Genesis 24:42

“I came today to the spring and said, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if now you will only make successful the way I am going!

Genesis 32:11

Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him; he may come and kill us all, the mothers with the children.

Genesis 32:28

Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans and have prevailed.”

Genesis 40:1

Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

Genesis 40:2

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

Genesis 40:21

He restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand,

Genesis 40:23

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph but forgot him.

Genesis 41:9

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “I remember my faults today.

Genesis 43:14

may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, so that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

2 Chronicles 6:40

Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to prayer from this place.

Ezra 1:1

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord from the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying:

Ezra 7:6

this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses that the Lord the God of Israel had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was upon him.

Nehemiah 1:6

let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for your servants, the Israelites, confessing the sins of the Israelites, which we have sinned against you. Both I and my family have sinned.

Nehemiah 2:1

In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was served him, I carried the wine and gave it to the king. Now, I had never been sad in his presence before.

Nehemiah 2:8

and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, directing him to give me timber to make beams for the gates of the temple fortress and for the wall of the city and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, for the gracious hand of my God was upon me.

Psalm 106:46

He caused them to be pitied by all who held them captive.

Psalm 130:2

Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!

Psalm 61:5

For you, O God, have heard my vows; you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

Psalm 86:6

Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; listen to my cry of supplication.

Proverbs 1:29

Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord,

Proverbs 21:1

The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.

Jeremiah 42:12

I will grant you mercy, and he will have mercy on you and restore you to your native soil.

Malachi 3:16

Then those who revered the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord took note and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who revered the Lord and thought on his name.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us; we are sure that we have a good conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.