CINXE.COM
Nehemiah 1 Legacy Standard Bible
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Nehemiah 1 Legacy Standard Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/nehemiah/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/nehemiah/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSB</a> > Nehemiah 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezra/10.htm" title="Ezra 10">◄</a> Nehemiah 1 <a href="../nehemiah/2.htm" title="Nehemiah 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/nehemiah/1.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Nehemiah Prays for the Sons of Israel</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. <p class="reg"> Now it happened in the month Chislev, <i>in</i> the twentieth year—and I was in Susa the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>capitol— <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>that Hanani, one of my brothers, and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>some men from Judah came; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped and remain from the captivity, and about Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who remain from the captivity are in great calamity and reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Now it happened that when I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I said, “I beseech You, O <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and fearsome God, who keeps the covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments, <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>let Your ear now be attentive and Your eyes open to hear the prayer of Your slave which I am praying before You today, day and night, on behalf of the sons of Israel Your slaves, confessing the sins of the sons of Israel which we have sinned against You; I and my father’s house have sinned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>We have worked <i>in</i> utter destruction against You and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments which You commanded Your <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>servant Moses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Remember the word which You commanded Your <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>servant Moses, saying, ‘<i>If</i> you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples; <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>but <i>if</i> you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been banished were at the ends of the sky, I will gather them from there and will bring them to the place where I have chosen to cause My name to dwell.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They are Your slaves and Your people whom You redeemed by Your great power and by Your strong hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>O Lord, I beseech You, may Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your slave and the prayer of Your slaves who delight to fear Your name, and make Your slave successful today and grant him compassion before this man.” <p class="reg"> Now I was the cupbearer to the king.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>palace</i>, <i>citadel</i><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>he and some</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15<br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>slave</i>, cf. 1:6; see Preface, “The Terminology of Slave”<br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>slave</i>, cf. 1:6; see Preface, “The Terminology of Slave”<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with<br>Three Sixteen Publishing Inc.<br>LSBible.org<br><br>For Permission to Quote Information visit <a href="http://www.LSBible.org">http://www.LSBible.org</a>.<br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezra/10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezra 10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezra 10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../nehemiah/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Nehemiah 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>