Dan 9:18 | NETfull | STEP | Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant.

Daniel 9:18

18 Listen attentively, ^{▼▼ Heb “turn your ear.”} my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins ^{▼▼ Heb “desolations.” The term refers here to the ruined condition of Judah’s towns.} and the city called by your name. ^{▼▼ 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.} For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, ^{▼▼ Heb “praying our supplications before you.”} but because your compassion is abundant.