Daniel 9:17

And now, O lord our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and his supplications, and cause your face to shine on your desolate sanctuary, for your own sake, O Lord.

LXX2012 (British)

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

16O Lord, your mercy is over all: let, I pray you, your wrath turn away, and your anger from your city Jerusalem, even your holy mountain: for we have sinned, and because of our iniquities, and those of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach amongst all that are round about us.

18Incline your ear, O my God, and hear; open your eyes and behold our desolation, and that of your city on which your name is called: for we do not bring our pitiful case before you on the ground of our righteousness, but on the ground of your manifold compassions, O Lord.

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Cross References

Numbers 6:23Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, Thus you⌃ shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them,

1 Kings 8:28Yet, O Lord God of Israel, you shall look upon my petition, to hear the prayer which your servant prays to you in your presence this day,

Psalms 67:1Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered; and let them that hate him flee from before him. 1

Psalms 74:3The earth is dissolved, and all that dwell in it: I have strengthened its pillars. Pause. 1

Psalms 80:3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of + 80:3 Alex. our. your feast. 1

Psalms 80:7You did call upon me in trouble, and I delivered you; I heard you in the secret place of the storm: I proved you at the water of + 80:7 Lit. contradiction. Strife. Pause. 1

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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