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Nehemiah 1:9

RepentanceObedienceHopeGod's faithfulness

7 We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.

8 Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,

but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’

10 They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.

11 O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)

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BSB
but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’
KJV
But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
WEB
but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’
ASV
but if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in 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 cause my name to dwell there.
DARBY
but 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.
BLB
and [if] you⁺ return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though your⁺ outcast were in the end of the heavens, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen as a dwelling for My name there.’
ÅB
men vender dere om til meg og holder mine bud og gjør etter dem, da vil jeg, om enn de bortdrevne blant dere er ved himmelens ende, samle dem derfra og føre dem til det sted jeg har utvalgt til å la mitt navn bo der.
OTB
men hvis dere vender tilbake til meg og adlyder mine bud, da vil jeg, selv om ditt bortførte folk er ved den fjerneste horisont, samle dem derfra og bringe dem til stedet jeg har valgt for mitt navn å bo.'
B1930
men vender I om til mig og holder mine bud og gjør efter dem, da vil jeg, om enn de bortdrevne blandt eder er ved himmelens ende, samle dem derfra og føre dem til det sted jeg har utvalgt til å la mitt navn bo der.

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Cross references

  • Jeremiah 29:11–14

    For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

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  • Deuteronomy 30:2–5

    and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,

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  • Deuteronomy 4:29–31

    But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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  • Jeremiah 32:37

    I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.

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  • Leviticus 26:39–42

    Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

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  • Isaiah 56:8

    Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”

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  • Jeremiah 12:15

    But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.

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  • Deuteronomy 12:5

    Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

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