Nehemiah’s appeal to God. The prayer is a perfect example of the private and individual devotion with which the later Hebrew Scriptures abound. It …

We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy …

But if you return to me, and keep my commandments, and do
them
Return by repentance, …

Nehemiah was the Persian king's cup-bearer. When God has work to do, He will never lack instruments to do it with. Nehemiah lived at ease and in ho…