Nehemiah 1:6-9

6listen to my prayer! Look down and see me praying night and day for your people Israel. I confess that we have sinned against you. Yes, even my own family and I have sinned!

7We have sinned terribly by not obeying the commands, decrees, and regulations that you gave us through your servant Moses.

8“Please remember what you told your servant Moses: ‘If you are unfaithful to me, I will scatter you among the nations.

9But if you return to me and obey my commands and live by them, then even if you are exiled to the ends of the earth, I will bring you back to the place I have chosen for my name to be honored.’