Tree of Life Version
Daniel 9:19
19Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, listen and act! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay! For Your city and Your people are called by Your name.’
Daniel 9:19 in other versions
- King James Version (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.
- New International Version (NIV)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.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)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."
- New King James Version (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.”
Context of Daniel 9:19
17‘So now, our God, listen to the prayers and petitions of Your servant, and cause Your face to shine upon Your devastated Sanctuary, for the sake of my Lord. 18Give ear, my God, and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolation and the city called by Your name. We do not present our supplications before You because of our own righteousness, but because of Your great compassions. Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, listen and act! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay! For Your city and Your people are called by Your name.’ 20“While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Adonai my God on behalf of the holy mountain of my God— 21yes, while I was praying, Gabriel, the one I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me swiftly about the time of the evening offering.
Read all of Daniel 9Daniel 9:19 word by word
אֲדֹנָ֤י׀ שְׁמָ֙עָה֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י׀ סְלָ֔חָה אֲדֹנָ֛י הַֽקֲשִׁ֥יבָה וַעֲשֵׂ֖ה אַל־תְּאַחַ֑ר לְמַֽעֲנְךָ֣ אֱלֹהַ֔י כִּֽי־שִׁמְךָ֣ נִקְרָ֔א עַל־עִירְךָ֖ וְעַל־עַמֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- O Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136
- hearשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
- forgiveסָלַחsâlach · to forgiveH5545
- hearkenקָשַׁבqâshab · to listenH7181
- and doעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
- deferאָחַר'âchar · to delayH309
- notאַל'al · notH408
- for thine own sake, O my Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
- for thy cityעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
- and thy peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
- are calledקָרָאqârâ' · to call: call byH7121
- by thy nameשֵׁםshêm · nameH8034
Cross-references for Daniel 9:19
- Numbers 14:19Forgive now the guiltiness of this people in accordance with the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You have pardoned this people from Egypt until now!”
- 1 Kings 8:30“So listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive!
- 2 Chronicles 6:21Hear the supplications of Your servant and Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from Your dwelling place, from heaven, and when You hear, forgive.
- Amos 7:2When the locust-swarm had finished devouring the vegetation of the land, I said: “Adonai Elohim, please pardon! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?”
- Luke 11:8I tell you, even if the friend will not get up and give him anything out of friendship, yet because of the man’s persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
- Psalms 44:23But for Your sake we are slain all day. We are counted as sheep for slaughter.
- Psalms 74:9We do not see our signs. No longer is there any prophet— and no one among us knows how long.
- Psalms 79:5How long, Adonai, will You be angry? Forever? Will Your jealousy keep blazing like fire?
- Psalms 85:5Restore us, O God of our salvation, and renounce Your indignation with us.
- Psalms 102:13But You, Adonai, sit enthroned forever. Your renown is from generation to generation.
- Isaiah 64:9Your holy cities became a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
- Psalms 79:8Do not hold against us the sins of our fathers. May Your mercies come quickly to meet us, for we are brought very low.
- Psalms 102:15for her stones are dear to Your servants, and they cherish her dust.
- Psalms 115:1Not to us, Adonai, not to us, but to Your Name be the glory— because of Your love and Your faithfulness.
- Jeremiah 14:7Though our iniquities testify against us, Adonai, act for Your Name’s sake. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against You.
- Ezekiel 20:9But I acted, for the sake of My Name, to keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations, where they were, in whose sight I made Myself known to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt.
Commentaries on Daniel 9:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Thy city and thy people are called by thy name - The holy city, the city of the great King. I think it scarcely possible for any serious man to read these impressive and pleading words without feeling a measure of the prophet's earnestness.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19O Lord, hear - The language in this verse does not require any particular explanation. The repetition - the varied forms of expression - indicate a mind intent on the object; a heart greatly interested; an earnestness that cannot be denied. It is language that is respectful, solemn, devout, but deeply earnest. It is not vain repetition, for its force is not in the “words” employed, but in the manifest fervour, earnestness, and sincerity of spirit which…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-19Verses 4-19 In every prayer we must make confession, not only of the sins we have been guilty of, but of our faith in God, and dependence upon him, our sorrow for sin, and our resolutions against it. It must be our confession, the language of our convictions. Here is Daniel's humble, serious, devout address to God; in which he gives glory to him as a God to be feared, and as a God to be trusted. We should, in prayer, look both at God's greatness and his…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19hear and act! … do not delay: Daniel prayed this prayer in 539 BC (see study note on Daniel 9:1). Shortly after, in 538 BC, King Cyrus issued a decree allowing the Jewish people to return to Judea (Ezra 1:1–4). The new temple in Jerusalem was completed in 515 BC (Ezra 6:15). God brought the Israelites back from exile in Babylon because of their prayers and repentance. The exile had been God's response to their sins and rebellion. Your city and Your people…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. The short broken ejaculations and repetitions show the intense fervor of his supplications. defer not--He implies that the seventy years are now all but complete. thine own sake--often repeated, as being the strongest plea (Jr 14:21).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Daniel 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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