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Daniel 9:18-20
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18 Listen attentively,[a] my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins[b] and the city called by your name.[c] For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you,[d] but because your compassion is abundant. 19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.”[e]

Gabriel Gives to Daniel a Prophecy of Seventy Weeks

20 While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the Lord my God concerning his holy mountain[f]—

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:18 tn Heb “turn your ear.”
  2. Daniel 9:18 tn Heb “desolations.” The term refers here to the ruined condition of Judah’s towns.
  3. Daniel 9:18 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. Daniel 9:18 tn Heb “praying our supplications before you.”
  5. Daniel 9:19 tn Heb “for your name is called over your city and your people.” See the note on this expression in v. 18.
  6. Daniel 9:20 tn Heb “the holy mountain of my God.”
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