please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.
Commentaries
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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 …
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
And said, I implore you, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, who keeps covenant and mercy for those who love him and observe his …
John Gill
JohnGill
Let your ear be now attentive
To his prayer, as in (Nehemiah 1:11) ,
and your eyes op…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
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…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott