let Your eyes be open and Your ears be attentive(A) to hear Your servant’s prayer that I now pray to You day and night(B) for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins[a] we have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 1:6 Lit sins of the Israelites

let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear(A) the prayer(B) your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess(C) the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you.

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I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed:

Ah, Lord—the great and awe-inspiring God(A) who keeps His gracious covenant(B) with those who love Him(C) and keep His commands(D)

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I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed:(A)

“Lord, the great and awesome God,(B) who keeps his covenant of love(C) with those who love him and keep his commandments,

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The 70 Weeks of Years

20 While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel,(A) and presenting my petition before Yahweh my God concerning the holy mountain of my God—

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The Seventy “Sevens”

20 While I was speaking and praying, confessing(A) my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the Lord my God for his holy hill(B)

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