SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:9
mas si os volviereis a mí, y guardareis mis mandamientos, y los pusiereis por obra. Si fuere vuestro lanzamiento hasta el cabo de los cielos, de allí los juntaré; y los traeré al lugar que escogí para hacer habitar allí mi nombre.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. But if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them , etc.] Return by repentance, and, as a proof of the genuineness of it, yield obedience to the commands of God, and continue therein: though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven ; that is, the uttermost parts of the earth, the most distant regions; so called, because at the extreme parts of the horizon, according to our apprehension, the heavens and earth touch each other; so that what is the uttermost part of the one is supposed to be of the other: yet will I gather them from thence and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there ; that is to Jerusalem where the temple was built, and his name was called upon.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Nehemiah's distress for the misery of Jerusalem, His prayer. --Nehemiah was the Persian king's cup-bearer. When God has work to do he will never want instruments to do it with. Nehemiah lived at ease and in honour, but does not forget that he is an Israelite, and tha his brethren are in distress. He was ready to do them all the goo offices he could; and that he might know how best to do them kindness, he makes inquiries about them. We should inquire especiall concerning the state of the church and religion. Every Jerusalem of this side the heavenly one will have some defect, which will requir the help and services of its friends. Nehemiah's first application wa to God, that he might have the fuller confidence in his application to the king. Our best pleas in prayer are taken from the promise of God the word on which he has caused us to hope. Other means must be used but the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails most Communion with God will best prepare us for our dealings with men. When we have intrusted our concerns to God, the mind is set at liberty; i feels satisfaction and composure, and difficulties vanish. We know tha if the affair be hurtful, he can easily hinder it; and if it be goo for us, he can as easily forward it __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ושׁבתם 7725 אלי 413 ושׁמרתם 8104 מצותי 4687 ועשׂיתם 6213 אתם 853 אם 518 יהיה 1961 נדחכם 5080 בקצה 7097 השׁמים 8064 משׁם 8033 אקבצם 6908 והבואתים 935 אל 413 המקום 4725 אשׁר 834 בחרתי 977 לשׁכן 7931 את 853 שׁמי 8034 שׁם׃ 8033
