Daniel 9:17

O Lord our God, listen to what I am praying and pleading for you to do. ◄For your own sake/In order that people will know that you are very great►, act kindly [IDM] concerning your temple, which was destroyed by the armies of Babylonia.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

In Context

16Lord, Jerusalem is your city, and your temple was built there on your sacred hill. Now all the people who live in nearby countries/nations despise Jerusalem and us your people because of our sins and because of the evil things that our ancestors did. But now, because you do what is righteous/just, we ask you to not be angry with Jerusalem any longer.

18My God, listen to my prayer. Look at us and see our troubles, and see that this city that belongs to you [MTY] has been ruined/destroyed. We are praying to you because you are merciful, not because we have done what is right/good.

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Cross References

Numbers 6:23“Tell Aaron and his sons that when they ask me to bless the people, they must say,

1 Kings 8:28But Yahweh, my God, please listen to me while I am praying to you this day,

Psalms 67:1God, be merciful to us and bless us; be kind to us [IDM], (Think about that!)

Psalms 74:3Walk along and see where everything has been totally ruined; our enemies have destroyed everything in the sacred temple.

Psalms 80:3God, cause our nation to be strong like it was before; be kind to us [IDM] in order that we may be saved from our enemies.

Psalms 80:7God, commander of the armies of heaven, cause our nation to be strong like it was before! Be kind to us in order that we may be saved!

Matthew Henry on Daniel 9:5-20

Daniel's Confession and Prayer; Daniel's Prayer for His People. ( b. c. 538.) 4 And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; 5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: 6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our… Read the whole commentary →

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