15 My eyes will now be open and My ears attentive to prayer from this place.(A)

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15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.(A)

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let Your eyes be open and Your ears be attentive(A) to hear Your servant’s prayer that I now pray to You day and night(B) for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins[a] we have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 1:6 Lit sins of the Israelites

let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear(A) the prayer(B) your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess(C) the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you.

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11 Please, Lord, let Your ear be attentive(A) to the prayer of Your servant and to that of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success today,(B) and have compassion on him in the presence of this man.[a](C)

At the time, I was the king’s cupbearer.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 1:11 = the king

11 Lord, let your ear be attentive(A) to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor(B) in the presence of this man.”

I was cupbearer(C) to the king.

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Psalm 17

A Prayer for Protection

A Davidic prayer.

Lord, hear a just cause;(A)
pay attention to my cry;
listen to my prayer—
from lips free of deceit.(B)

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Psalm 17

A prayer of David.

Hear me,(A) Lord, my plea is just;
    listen to my cry.(B)
Hear(C) my prayer—
    it does not rise from deceitful lips.(D)

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