Nehemiah 1:7-11

71We have acted very corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances 2which You commanded Your servant Moses. 8Remember, please, the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘3If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples; 94but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been scattered were in the most remote part of the heavens, I 5will gather them from there and bring them 6to the place where I have chosen to have My name dwell.’ 107They are Your servants and Your people whom You redeemed by Your great power and by Your strong hand. 11Please, Lord, 8may Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and the prayer of Your servants who delight to 9revere Your name, and please make Your servant successful today and grant him mercy before this man.”

Now I was the 10cupbearer to the king.