Quotes About Guidance

Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, together with Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers,

On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.

And now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments

Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

“What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven

The Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah—instructed the people in the Law as they stood in their places.

Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.

You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.

In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.

You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.

Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.

Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed,

and also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. Then the choirs sang out under the direction of Jezrahiah.

Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecaiís command, as she had done under his care.

Then Esther spoke to Hathach and instructed him to tell Mordecai,

So Mordecai went and did all that Esther had instructed him.

Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred.