but 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.’ “Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.
Nehemiah 1:9-10
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