Daniel 9:18 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁸ “O my Elohim, incline Your ear and hear. Open Your eyes and see our wastes, and the city which is called by Your Name. For we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great compassions.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and look at our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You for our own righteousness and justice, but for Your great mercy and loving-kindness.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies’ sake.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Open your ears, my God, and listen! Open your eyes and look at our devastation. Look at the city called by your name! We pray our prayers for help to you, not because of any righteous acts of ours but because of your great compassion.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Incline your ear, O my God, and hear, open your eyes and see our desolation and the city over which your name is invoked. For it is not through our justifications that we offer requests before your face, but through the fullness of your compassion.

Daniel 9:18 Cross References

1 Kings 8:29

“For Your eyes to be open toward this House night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name is there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.

2 Kings 19:16

“Incline Your ear, O יהוה, and hear. Open Your eyes, O יהוה, and see. And hear the words of Sanḥ

Psalm 116:1

I love יהוה, because He has heard my voice, my pleas.

Psalm 25:6

Remember, O יהוה, Your compassion and Your kindnesses, For they are from everlasting.

Exodus 3:7

And יהוה  said, “I have indeed seen the oppression of My people who are in Mitsrayim, and have heard their cry because of their slave-drivers, for I know their sorrows.

Isaiah 37:17

“Incline Your ear, O יהוה, and hear. Open Your eyes, O יהוה, and see. And hear all the words of Sanḥ

Isaiah 43:7

all those who are called by My Name, whom I have created, formed, even made for My esteem.”

Isaiah 64:12

In view of all this, would You restrain Yourself, O יהוה ? Would You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?

Isaiah 64:6

And all of us have become as one unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as soiled rags. And all of us fade like a leaf, and our crookednesses, like the wind, have taken us away.

Jeremiah 14:7

O יהוה, though our crookednesses witness against us, act, for Your Name’s sake. For our backslidings have been many, we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 14:9

Why should You be as one who is stunned, as a mighty man that is unable to save? Yet You, O יהוה, are in our midst, and Your Name has been called on us. Do not leave us!

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. For Your Name is called on me, O יהוה  Elohim of hosts.

Jeremiah 25:29

“For look, I am beginning to bring evil upon the city which is called by My Name, and should you be entirely unpunished? You are not going unpunished, for I am calling for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares יהוה  of hosts.’

Jeremiah 36:7

“It could be that they present their supplication before יהוה, and they turn back, each one from his evil way. For great is the displeasure and the wrath that יהוה  has spoken against this people.”

Jeremiah 37:20

“But now, please hear, O my master the sovereign. Please, let my petition be accepted before you, and do not make me return to the house of Yehonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”

Ezekiel 36:22

“Therefore say to the house of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 36:32

“Not for your sake am I acting,” declares the Master יהוה, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and blush for your ways, O house of Yisra’ĕ

Daniel 9:7

“O יהוה, to You is the righteousness, and to us the shame of face, as it is this day – to the men of Yehuḏ

Numbers 6:27

“Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra’ĕ

1 Corinthians 1:2

to the assembly of Elohim which is at Corinth, to those who are set-apart in Messiah יהושע, called set-apart ones, with all those calling on the Name of יהושע  Messiah our Master in every place, theirs and ours: