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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.”
Daniel 9:19 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB 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.
  • KJV 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.
  • NKJV 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.”
  • NASB 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.”
  • NLT “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.”

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Quick answer

Daniel cries urgently for God to hear, forgive, listen, and act without delay, for His own sake. His prayer climaxes in passionate pleading rooted in God's name and ownership of His people.

Overview

In a rapid succession of pleas, Daniel begs God to forgive and act without delay, for the city and people are called by God's name. The repeated for your own sake makes God's glory the ultimate motive. This urgent, God-centered intercession models bold yet humble prayer, and reminds believers that those who bear God's name are precious to Him, supremely so in Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 29

  • Dan 9:18Incline 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.
  • Luke 11:8I tell you, even though he will not get up to provide for him because of his friendship, yet because of the man’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
  • Amos 7:2And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
  • Jer 14:9Why 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!
  • Eph 1:12in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.
  • Eph 3:10His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,
  • Num 14:19Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
  • 2 Chr 6:25–30then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers.
  • Jer 14:7Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
  • Ezek 20:14But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
  • Ps 44:23–26Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
  • Ps 74:9–11There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
  • Isa 63:16–19Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
  • Ezek 20:9But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
  • Isa 64:9–12Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
  • Ezek 39:25Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
  • Jer 25:29For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
  • Ps 115:1–2Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.
  • Ezek 36:22Therefore 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.
  • Ps 102:13–16You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.
  • Ps 79:8–10Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
  • Ps 79:5–6How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
  • 1 Kgs 8:30–39Hear 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.
  • Eph 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
  • Ezek 20:22But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
  • Jer 14:20–21We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
  • 2 Chr 6:39then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.
  • Ps 85:5–6Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
  • 2 Chr 6:21Hear 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.

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Christ at the center

Daniel sees the stone cut without hands that shatters the kingdoms, and 'one like a son of man' given everlasting dominion — titles and visions Jesus claims as his own.

How Daniel 9:19 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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