Nehemiah 5:19 - Exposition

Think upon me, my God . Compare Nehemiah 13:14 , Nehemiah 13:22 , Nehemiah 13:31 . This is no "prayer for posthumous fame", but simply an appeal to God, beseeching him to bear in mind the petitioner's good deeds, and reward them at his own good time and in his own way. As Butler observes ('Analogy,' Part I. ch. 3.), the sense of good and ill desert is inseparably connected with an expectation of reward or punishment, and so with the notion of a future life, since neither are the righteous adequately rewarded nor the wicked adequately punished in this life.