Nehemiah 1 · Verse 9

Nehemiah 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.
Nehemiah 1:9, King James Version

Nehemiah 1:9 in other translations

BSBbut 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.’
WEBbut 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.’
ASVbut 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.
YLTand ye have turned back unto Me, and kept My commands, and done them--if your outcast is in the end of the heavens, thence I gather them, and have brought them in unto the place that I have chosen to cause My name to tabernacle there.
DARBYbut 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.
BBEBut if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.
WebsterBut if ye turn to me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you driven to the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

Nehemiah 1:9 in the original Hebrew

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וְשַׁבְתֶּ֣םve.shav.Temand you will turn backH7725
אֵלַ֔י'e.Laito meH413
וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם֙u.she.mar.Temand you will keepH8104
מִצְוֹתַ֔יmitz.vo.Taicommandments myH4687
וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖םva.'a.si.Temand you will observeH6213
אֹתָ֑ם'o.Tam<obj.> themH853
אִם\־'im-ifH518
יִהְיֶ֨הyih.Yehit will beH1961
נִֽדַּחֲכֶ֜םni.da.cha.Khembanished [one] yourH5080
בִּקְצֵ֤הbik.Tzehat [the] end ofH7097
הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ha.sha.Ma.yimthe heavensH8064
מִשָּׁ֣םmi.Shamfrom thereH8033
אֲקַבְּצֵ֔ם'a.ka.be.TzemI will gather themH6908
וַהֲבִֽיאוֹתִים֙va.ha.vo.'o.timand I will bring themH935
אֶל\־'el-toH413
הַמָּק֔וֹםha.ma.Komthe placeH4725
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhereH834
בָּחַ֔רְתִּיba.Char.tiI have chosenH977
לְשַׁכֵּ֥ןle.sha.Kento cause to dwellH7931
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
שְׁמִ֖יshe.Miname myH8034
שָֽׁם\׃ShamthereH8033

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Cross references for Nehemiah 1:9

  • Jeremiah 29:11-14

    For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

  • Deuteronomy 30:2-5

    And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

  • Deuteronomy 4:29-31

    But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

  • Jeremiah 32:37

    Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

  • Leviticus 26:39-42

    And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

  • Isaiah 56:8

    The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

  • Jeremiah 12:15

    And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

  • Deuteronomy 12:5

    But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

  • Ezra 6:12

    And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.

  • Matthew 24:31

    And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

  • Psalms 147:2

    The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

  • 1 Kings 9:3

    And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
if ye turn.
Le 26:39-42; De 4:29-31; 30:2-5; Jer 29:11-14
yet will I.
1Ch 16:35; Ps 106:47; 147:2; Isa 11:12; 56:8; Jer 12:15; 31:10
Jer 32:37; 50:19,20; Mt 24:31
will bring.
Jer 3:14; Eze 36:24
the place.
De 12:5,21; 1Ki 9:3; Ezr 6:12

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Context

  • Nehemiah 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:

  • Nehemiah 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.

  • Nehemiah 1:10

    Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.

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Nehemiah 1:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Mas os volveréis á mí, y guardaréis mis mandamientos, y los pondréis por obra. Si fuere vuestro lanzamiento hasta el cabo de los cielos, de allí os juntaré; y traerlos he al lugar que escogí para hacer habitar allí mi nombre.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et si vous revenez à moi, et que vous gardiez mes commandements et que vous les pratiquiez, quand vos dispersés seraient au bout des cieux, je les rassemblerai de là et je les ramènerai au lieu que j’ai choisi pour y faire demeurer mon nom.
German
Elberfelder 1871
wenn ihr aber zu mir umkehret und meine Gebote beobachtet und sie tut: sollten eure Vertriebenen am Ende des Himmels sein, so würde ich sie von dannen sammeln und sie an den Ort bringen, den ich erwählt habe, um meinen Namen daselbst wohnen zu lassen!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et si revertamini ad me, et custodiatis præcepta mea, et faciatis ea: etiamsi abducti fueritis ad extrema cæli, inde congregabo vos, et reducam in locum quem elegi ut habitaret nomen meum ibi.