18 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.
18 Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy nameD6061: for we do not presentD6062 our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies.
name - See 1 Kings 8.48. present - Lit. 'cause to fall,' so ver. 20. see Jer. 36.7, &c.
18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy nameK5977: for we do not presentK5978our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
which is called by thy name: Heb. whereupon thy Name is called. present: Heb. cause to fall.
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