¹⁶“O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteousness, let now Your ^aanger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your ^bholy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a ^creproach to all those around us.

¹⁷“So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your slave and to his supplications, and for ¹Your sake, O Lord, ^alet Your face shine on Your ^bdesolate sanctuary.

¹⁸“O my God, ^aincline Your ear and listen! Open Your eyes and ^bsee our desolations and the city which is ^ccalled by Your name; for we are not ¹^dpresenting our supplications before You on account of any righteousness of our own, but on account of Your abundant compassion.

¹⁹“O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, give heed and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, ^ado not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”

Gabriel Brings Understanding

²⁰Now while I was ^aspeaking and praying, and ^bconfessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and ¹presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God,

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Footnotes

1Lit the sake of the Lord
1Lit causing to fall
1Lit causing to fall

Cross references

a Jer 32:31, 32
b Ps 87:1–3; Dan 9:20; Joel 3:17; Zech 8:3
c Ezek 5:14
a Num 6:24–26; Ps 80:3, 7, 19
b Lam 5:18
a Is 37:17
b Ps 80:14
c Jer 7:10–12
d Jer 36:7
a Ps 44:23; 74:10, 11
a Ps 145:18; Is 58:9; Dan 9:3; 10:12
b Is 6:5