Daniel 9:18

Listen attentively, ¹  my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins ²  and the city called by your name. ³  For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, ⁴  but because your compassion is abundant.

Ex 3:7; 1Ki 8:29; 2Ki 19:16; Ps 17:6,7; Ps 80:14-19; Isa 37:17; Isa 63:15-19; Isa 64:6; Isa 64:12; Jer 7:10; Jer 14:7; Jer 14:9; Jer 15:16; Jer 25:29; Jer 36:7; Jer 37:20; Eze 36:32; 1Co 1:2

¹ tn Heb “turn your ear.”

² tn Heb “desolations.” The term refers here to the ruined condition of Judah’s towns.

³ tn Heb “over which your name is called.” Cf. v. 19. This expression implies that God is the owner of his city, Jerusalem. Note the use of the idiom in 2 Sam 12:28; Isa 4:1; Amos 9:12.

⁴ tn Heb “praying our supplications before you.”