Nehemiah 2:4
Hebrew Text— Nehemiah 2:4Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
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Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.
Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,
He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.
Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
He swore to her, “Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”
But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”
For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,
Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”
When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.
The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”
When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
Lord, 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.
In 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.
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.”
I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.
Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,
He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”
Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him.
The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.
Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “Rabboni, that I may see again.”
He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’
Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.
Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
Then the king asked her, “What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.”
The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”
The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”
and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.