Nehemiah 1:4-9

4And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat and wept, and mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before the 1God of the heavens,

5and said, I beseech thee, Jehovah, 2God of the heavens, the great and terrible 3God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and keep his commandments.

6Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, confessing the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

7We have acted very perversely against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances that thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

8Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the peoples;

9but if ye return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.