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Nehemiah 1:5-7
Confession Through the Night
Prayer Before the King · Nehemiah 1
Story guide: His prayer begins with God's faithful character and includes both communal and personal confession.
Open this scene in the reader →5And I said, “Please, O Yahweh, God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps the covenant and steadfast love for those who love him and keep his commandments,”
6Please let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am now praying before you day and night, for the sons of Israel, your servants, while confessing the sins of the sons of Israel that we have sinned against you. I and my father's house have sinned.
7We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments that you commanded your servant Moses.
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