⁴⁰ Now, my God, I pray, let Your eyes be ^(A)open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made in this place.

¹⁵ Now ^(A)My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.

Prayer with Confidence in Final Salvation

A Prayer of David.

⁶ please let Your ear be attentive and ^(A)Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and ^(B)confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.

¹¹ O Lord, I pray, please ^(A)let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who ^(B)desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”

For I was the king’s ^(C)cupbearer.

¹⁶ “O Lord, ^(A)according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, ^(B)Your holy mountain; because for our sins, ^(C)and for the iniquities of our fathers, ^(D)Jerusalem and Your people ^(E)are a reproach to all those around us. ¹⁷ Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, ^(F)and ^(G)for the Lord’s sake ^[a]cause Your face to shine on ^[b]Your sanctuary, ^(H)which is desolate. ^18 (I)O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes ^(J)and see our desolations, and the city ^(K)which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. ¹⁹ 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.”

^17 (A)Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and ^(B)hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

A Prayer for Help in Despondency

A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. Set to “Mahalath Leannoth.” A ^[a]Contemplation of ^(A)Heman the Ezrahite.