11 Ah, Jehovah,* please, let your ear become attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer+ of your servants who take delight in fearing your name;+ and, please, do grant success to your servant today+ and make him an object of pity before this man.”+

Now I myself happened to be cupbearer+ to the king.

14 Another thing: From the day that he commissioned me to become their governor*+ in the land of Judah, from the twentieth+ year to the thirty-second+ year of Ar·ta·xerxʹes+ the king, twelve years, I myself and my brothers did not eat the bread due the governor.+

10 Now attesting it by seal*+ there were:

Ne·he·miʹah+ the Tir·shaʹtha,+ the son of Hac·a·liʹah,+

And Zed·e·kiʹah,