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1 哈迦利亚的儿子尼希米的言语如下。亚达薛西王二十年基斯流月,我在书珊城的宫中。
2 那时,有我一个弟兄哈拿尼,同着几个人从犹大来。我问他们那些被掳归回,剩下逃脱的犹大人和耶路撒冷的光景。
3 他们对我说,那些被掳归回剩下的人,在犹大省遭大难,受凌辱。并且耶路撒冷的城墙拆毁,城门被火焚烧。
4 我听见这话,就坐下哭泣,悲哀几日。在天上的神面前禁食祈祷,说,
5 耶和华天上的神,大而可畏的神啊,你向爱你,守你诫命的人守约施慈爱。
6 愿你睁眼看,侧耳听,你仆人昼夜在你面前,为你众仆人以色列民的祈祷,承认我们以色列人向你所犯的罪。我与我父家都有罪了。
7 我们向你所行的甚是邪恶,没有遵守你借着仆人,摩西所吩咐的诫命,律例,典章。
8 求你记念所吩咐你仆人摩西的话,说,你们若犯罪,我就把你们分散在万民中。
9 但你们若归向我,谨守遵行我的诫命,你们被赶散的人虽在天涯,我也必从那里将他们招聚回来,带到我所选择立为我名的居所。
10 这都是你的仆人,你的百姓,就是你用大力,和大能的手所救赎的。
11 主啊,求你侧耳听你仆人的祈祷,和喜爱敬畏你名众仆人的祈祷,使你仆人现今亨通,在王面前蒙恩。我是作王酒政的。
King James Version
Chapter 1
1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
1:2 That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
1:3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
1:4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
1:5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
1:6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
1:7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
1:8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
1:9 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.
1:10 Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
1:11 O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
LYDIA ENOCH HOMESCHOOL UNION