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50 until the Lord from heaven
    looks down and sees.(A)

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A Prayer of Penitence

15 Look down from heaven and see,
    from your holy and glorious habitation.
Where are your zeal and your might?
    Your great pity and your compassion are withheld from me.(A)

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A Plea for Mercy

Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
    look, and see our disgrace!(A)

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16 O Lord, in view of all your righteous acts, let your anger and wrath, we pray, turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become a disgrace among all our neighbors.(A) 17 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, and for your own sake, Lord,[a] let your face shine upon your desolated sanctuary.(B) 18 Incline your ear, O my God, and hear. Open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that bears your name. We do not present our supplication before you on the ground of our righteousness but on the ground of your great mercies.(C) 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act and do not delay! For your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people bear your name!”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 9.17 Theodotion Vg Compare Syr: Heb for the Lord’s sake

20 Look, O Lord, and consider!
    To whom have you done this?
Should women eat their offspring,
    the children they have borne?
Should priest and prophet be killed
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?(A)

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64 O that you would tear open the heavens and come down,
    so that the mountains would quake at your presence—(A)

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Upon your walls, O Jerusalem,
    I have posted sentinels;
all day and all night
    they shall never be silent.
You who remind the Lord,
    take no rest,(A)
and give him no rest
    until he establishes Jerusalem
    and makes it renowned throughout the earth.(B)

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19 that he looked down from his holy height,
    from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,(A)
20 to hear the groans of the prisoners,
    to set free those who were doomed to die,(B)

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14 Turn again, O God of hosts;
    look down from heaven and see;
have regard for this vine,(A)
15     the stock that your right hand planted.[a]
16 It has been burned with fire; it has been cut down;
    may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 80.15 Heb adds from 80.17 and upon the one whom you made strong for yourself