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Neh. 1:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Letm thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes openn, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confesso the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.

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1 Kings 8:28• ²⁸Yet have respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, Jehovah, my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day; (1 Kings 8:28)

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2 Chron. 6:40• ⁴⁰Now, my God, I beseech thee, let thine eyes be open and let thine ears be attentive unto the prayer that is made in this place. (2 Chron. 6:40)

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Psa. 34:15• ¹⁵The eyes of Jehovah are upon the righteous, and his ears are toward their cry; (Psa. 34:15)

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Psa. 32:5• ⁵I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity I covered not; I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah, and *thou* forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. (Psa. 32:5)

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1 John 1:9• ⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)

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thine ear.

1 Kings 8:28‑29• ²⁸Yet have respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, Jehovah, my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day;
²⁹that thine eyes may be open upon this house night and day, upon the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place. (1 Kings 8:28‑29)

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2 Chron. 6:40• ⁴⁰Now, my God, I beseech thee, let thine eyes be open and let thine ears be attentive unto the prayer that is made in this place. (2 Chron. 6:40)

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Psa. 34:15• ¹⁵The eyes of Jehovah are upon the righteous, and his ears are toward their cry; (Psa. 34:15)

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Psa. 130:2• ²Lord, hear my voice; let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. (Psa. 130:2)

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Dan. 9:17‑18• ¹⁷And now, our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
¹⁸Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies. (Dan. 9:17‑18)

day and night.

1 Sam. 15:11• ¹¹It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned away from following me, and hath not fulfilled my words. And Samuel was much grieved; and he cried to Jehovah all night. (1 Sam. 15:11)

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Psa. 55:17• ¹⁷Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray and moan aloud; and he will hear my voice. (Psa. 55:17)

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Psa. 88:1• ¹A Song, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. An instruction. Of Heman the Ezrahite. Jehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee. (Psa. 88:1)

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Luke 2:37• ³⁷and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers; (Luke 2:37)

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Luke 18:7• ⁷And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them? (Luke 18:7)

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1 Tim. 5:5• ⁵Now she who is a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put her hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day. (1 Tim. 5:5)

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2 Tim. 1:3• ³I am thankful to God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, how unceasingly I have the remembrance of thee in my supplications night and day, (2 Tim. 1:3)

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Ezra 9:6‑7• ⁶and said: O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens.
⁷Since the days of our fathers, we have been in great trespass to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, our priests, have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. (Ezra 9:6‑7)

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Ezra 10:11• ¹¹And now make confession to Jehovah the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign wives. (Ezra 10:11)

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Psa. 32:5• ⁵I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity I covered not; I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah, and *thou* forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. (Psa. 32:5)

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Isa. 64:6‑7• ⁶And we are all become as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;
⁷and there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hidden thy face from us, and hast caused us to melt away through our iniquities. (Isa. 64:6‑7)

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Lam. 3:39‑42• ³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
⁴¹Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto *God in the heavens.
⁴²We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. (Lam. 3:39‑42)

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Dan. 9:4,20• ⁴and I prayed unto Jehovah my God, and made my confession, and said, Alas Lord! the great and terrible *God, keeping covenant and loving-kindness with them that love him, and that keep his commandments:
²⁰And whilst I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God; (Dan. 9:4,20)

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1 John 1:9• ⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)

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2 Chron. 28:10• ¹⁰And now ye think to subjugate the children of Judah and Jerusalem as your bondmen and bondwomen. Are there not with you, even with you, trespasses against Jehovah your God? (2 Chron. 28:10)

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2 Chron. 29:6• ⁶For our fathers have transgressed, and done evil in the sight of Jehovah our God, and have forsaken him and turned away their faces from the habitation of Jehovah, and have turned their backs. (2 Chron. 29:6)

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Psa. 106:6• ⁶We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. (Psa. 106:6)

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Isa. 6:5• ⁵And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts. (Isa. 6:5)

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Lam. 5:7• ⁷Our fathers have sinned, and they are not; and we bear their iniquities. (Lam. 5:7)

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Eph. 2:3• ³among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest: (Eph. 2:3)

• As with Ezra, two things characterized Nehemiah’s prayer: he vindicated God, and he made confession for sin. Too often we seek to find one upon whom we can cast blame — perhaps the feebleness of those at Jerusalem, or perhaps the king, or perhaps even God — anyone but ourselves. (“Nehemiah?s Prayer - Neh. 1:4-11” by N. Simon)

• Nehemiah had learned what is rarely learned in such a measure even by Christians, that is, how to be an intercessor for his people. "Day and night" he was praying for them, and hence it was that he had the power to confess their sins....Many can lament the condition of God's people, but there are few who can identify themselves with it. It is only such that can truly intercede for them in the presence of God. (“Exposition on Nehemiah: Nehemiah 1” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee at this timea, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, confessing the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "this day."