O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act; do not delay, for your own sake, O my God: for your city and your people are called by your name.
Hear and grant therefore the supplications of your servant, and of your people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people which have sinned against you.
Why should you be like a man astonished, like a mighty man who cannot save? yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; do not leave us.
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should you be completely unpunished? you shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.
Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and acted for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
But I acted for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; I do not do this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the heathen, to which you went.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
O my God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our supplications before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.
And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I plead with you: by whom shall Jacob rise up again? for he is small.
Pardon, I plead with you, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your mercy, and as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
I say to you, Though he will not rise and give him anything, because he is his friend, yet because of his insistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.