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14 Hear, Lord, our prayer of supplication, and deliver us for your own sake: grant us favor in the sight of those who brought us into exile, 15 that the whole earth may know that you are the Lord, our God, and that Israel[a] and his descendants bear your name.(A) 16 Lord, look down from your holy dwelling and take thought of us; Lord, incline your ear to hear us.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:15 Israel: the Israelites claimed descent from the patriarch Jacob, who had received the name Israel in a mysterious encounter with God (Gn 32:29). Thus the Deity was sometimes referred to as “the God of Israel” (Gn 33:20; Ex 5:1).