Daniel 9:19
New International Version
Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, hear and act! For your sake, my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name.”

New Living Translation
“O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and act! For your own sake, do not delay, O my God, for your people and your city bear your name.”

English Standard Version
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

Berean Standard Bible
O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”

King James Bible
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

New King James Version
O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”

New American Standard Bible
Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”

NASB 1995
“O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”

NASB 1977
“O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Thine own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Thy city and Thy people are called by Thy name.”

Legacy Standard Bible
O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, give heed and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”

Amplified Bible
O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”

Christian Standard Bible
Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, listen and act! My God, for your own sake, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your name.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, listen and act! My God, for Your own sake, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.

American Standard Version
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God, because thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

Contemporary English Version
Forgive us! Hurry and do something, not only for your city and your chosen people, but to bring honor to yourself.

English Revised Version
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not; for thine own sake, O my God, because thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Listen to us, Lord. Forgive us, Lord. Pay attention, and act. Don't delay! Do this for your sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name."

Good News Translation
Lord, hear us. Lord, forgive us. Lord, listen to us, and act! In order that everyone will know that you are God, do not delay! This city and these people are yours."

International Standard Version
Lord, listen! 'Lord, forgive! 'Lord, take note and take action! 'For your own sake, don't delay, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.'"

Majority Standard Bible
O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”

NET Bible
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."

New Heart English Bible
Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and take action. Do not delay, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name."

Webster's Bible Translation
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thy own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

World English Bible
Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
O Lord, hear, O Lord, forgive; O Lord, attend and do; do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God, for Your Name is called on Your city, and on Your people.

Young's Literal Translation
O lord, hear, O Lord, forgive; O Lord, attend and do; do not delay, for Thine own sake, O my God, for Thy name is called on Thy city, and on Thy people.'

Smith's Literal Translation
O Jehovah hear; O Jehovah forgive; O Jehovah, attend and do; thou wilt not delay for thy sake, O my God: for thy name was called upon thy city and upon thy people.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
O Lord, hear: O Lord, be appeased: hearken and do: delay not for thy own sake, O my God: because thy name is invocated upon thy city, and upon thy people.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Heed, O Lord. Be pleased, O Lord. Turn and act. Do not delay, for your own sake, O my God, because your name is invoked over your city and over your people.”

New American Bible
Lord, hear! Lord, pardon! Lord, be attentive and act without delay, for your own sake, my God, because your name is invoked upon your city and your people!”

New Revised Standard Version
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act and do not delay! For your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people bear your name!”
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
O LORD, hear; O LORD, forgive us; O LORD, hearken and do; delay not for thy own name's sake, O my God, because thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
LORD JEHOVAH, hear, LORD JEHOVAH! Atone for us, LORD JEHOVAH! Listen and do, and do not delay, because of your name, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name!”
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
O Lord, hear, O Lord, forgive, O Lord, attend and do, defer not; for Thine own sake, O my God, because Thy name is called upon Thy city and Thy people.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Hearken, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord; delay not, O my God, for thine own sake: for thy name is called upon thy city and upon thy people.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Daniel's Prayer for His People
18Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion. 19O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”

Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:14
and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Nehemiah 1:6-11
let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned. / We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses. / Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, ...

Psalm 79:9
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.

Jeremiah 14:7-9
Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You. / O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night? / Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!

Isaiah 64:9-12
Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people! / Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation. / Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins. ...

1 Kings 8:28-30
Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today. / May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place. / Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.

Psalm 25:11
For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.

Jeremiah 29:12-14
Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. / You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. / I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”

Isaiah 37:20
And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”

Psalm 51:1-2
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. / Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

Ezekiel 36:22-23
Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went. / I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes.

Joel 2:17
Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

Romans 10:1
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.

Luke 18:13
But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’

Matthew 6:9-13
So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. / Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. / Give us this day our daily bread. ...


Treasury of Scripture

O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and do; defer not, for your own sake, O my God: for your city and your people are called by your name.

O Lord, forgive.

Numbers 14:19
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

1 Kings 8:30-39
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive…

2 Chronicles 6:21,25-30,39
Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive…

defer.

Psalm 44:23-26
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever…

Psalm 74:9-11
We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long…

Psalm 79:5
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

thine.

Psalm 79:8-10
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low…

Psalm 102:15,16
So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory…

Psalm 115:1,2
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake…

for thy.

Daniel 9:18
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.

Psalm 79:6
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

Isaiah 63:16-19
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting…

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Daniel 9
1. Daniel, considering the time of the captivity,
3. makes confession of sins,
16. and prays for the restoration of Jerusalem.
20. Gabriel informs him of the seventy weeks.














O Lord, listen!
The phrase "O Lord, listen!" is a heartfelt plea from Daniel, emphasizing the urgency and desperation in his prayer. The Hebrew word for "listen" is "שָׁמַע" (shama), which means to hear intelligently, often with the implication of attention and obedience. Daniel is not merely asking God to hear the words, but to pay attention and respond. This reflects the deep relationship between God and His people, where God is not a distant deity but an attentive Father.

O Lord, forgive!
Here, "forgive" is translated from the Hebrew word "סָלַח" (salach), which means to pardon or spare. Daniel acknowledges the sins of Israel and seeks divine mercy. Forgiveness in the biblical context is not just about absolution but also about restoration of relationship. Daniel's plea is rooted in the covenant relationship between God and Israel, where forgiveness is a pathway to renewal and healing.

O Lord, hear and act!
The repetition of "O Lord" underscores the intensity of Daniel's supplication. "Hear" (שָׁמַע, shama) and "act" (עָשָׂה, asah) together convey a call for God to not only listen but to intervene. The Hebrew "asah" implies doing or making, suggesting that Daniel is asking for tangible action from God. This reflects the biblical understanding that faith is not passive but expects divine intervention in the affairs of humanity.

For Your sake, O my God
Daniel appeals to God's own reputation and glory. The phrase "For Your sake" indicates that the motivation for the request is not merely the benefit of the people but the honor of God's name. This reflects a deep theological truth that God's actions in history are ultimately for the display of His glory and faithfulness. Daniel's use of "O my God" personalizes the plea, showing his intimate relationship with the divine.

do not delay
The urgency in "do not delay" is palpable. The Hebrew word "אַחַר" (achar) means to linger or tarry. Daniel is acutely aware of the pressing need for God's intervention. This urgency is not just about immediate relief but is tied to the prophetic timeline and the fulfillment of God's promises. It reflects a trust in God's timing while also expressing a human desire for swift resolution.

because Your city and Your people bear Your name
"Your city" refers to Jerusalem, and "Your people" to the Israelites. The phrase "bear Your name" signifies ownership and representation. In ancient Near Eastern culture, a name was more than a label; it represented character and authority. By invoking God's name, Daniel is reminding God of His covenant promises and the responsibility that comes with His name being associated with His people. This is a profound reminder of the identity and mission of God's people to reflect His character to the world.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
O Lord,
אֲדֹנָ֤י ׀ (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

listen!
שְׁמָ֙עָה֙ (šə·mā·‘āh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

O Lord,
אֲדֹנָ֣י ׀ (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

forgive!
סְלָ֔חָה (sə·lā·ḥāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5545: To forgive, pardon

O Lord,
אֲדֹנָ֛י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

hear
הַֽקֲשִׁ֥יבָה (ha·qă·šî·ḇāh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7181: To prick up the ears, hearken

and act!
וַעֲשֵׂ֖ה (wa·‘ă·śêh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

For Your sake,
לְמַֽעֲנְךָ֣ (lə·ma·‘ăn·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent

O my God,
אֱלֹהַ֔י (’ĕ·lō·hay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

delay,
תְּאַחַ֑ר (tə·’a·ḥar)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 309: To loiter, to procrastinate

because
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

Your city
עִירְךָ֖ (‘î·rə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

and Your people
עַמֶּֽךָ׃ (‘am·me·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

bear
נִקְרָ֔א (niq·rā)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

Your name.”
שִׁמְךָ֣ (šim·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8034: A name


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