Nehemiah 1:11

WEB

¹¹Lord,^[+] I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.

KJV

¹¹O 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.

BSB

¹¹O 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.)

FBV

¹¹Lord, please respond to my prayer and to the prayers of those who love to worship you. Please let me be successful today and make the king sympathetic to me.’” I was the king's cupbearer.

Extra References

Nehemiah 1:6

⁶let your ear now be attentive and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

Nehemiah 2:8

⁸and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.

Nehemiah 2:1

¹In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.

Proverbs 21:1

¹The king’s heart is in the LORD’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Hebrews 13:18

¹⁸Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

Ezra 7:6

⁶this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the LORD his God’s hand on him.

Psalms 130:2

²Lord, ^[+] hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

Psalms 86:6

⁶Hear, LORD, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.

Genesis 40:21

²¹He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;

Ezra 7:27-28

²⁷Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the LORD’s house which is in Jerusalem; ²⁸and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the LORD my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.