Daniel 9:18
Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear: open thy eyes, and see our desolation, and the city upon which thy name is called: for it is not for our justifications that we present our prayers before thy face, but for the multitude of thy tender mercies.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Inclina, Deus meus, aurem tuam, et audi : aperi oculos tuos, et vide desolationem nostram, et civitatem super quam invocatum est nomen tuum : neque enim in justificationibus nostris prosternimus preces ante faciem tuam, sed in miserationibus tuis multis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- κλῖνον, ὁ θεός μου, τὸ οὖς σου καὶ ἄκουσον· ἄνοιξον τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς σου καὶ ἴδε τὸν ἀφανισμὸν ἡμῶν καὶ τῆς πόλεώς σου, ἐφ᾽ ἧς ἐπικέκληται τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐπ᾽ αὐτῆς· ὅτι οὐκ ἐπὶ ταῖς δικαιοσύναις ἡμῶν ῥιπτοῦμεν τὸν οἰκτειρμὸν ἡμῶν ἐνώπιόν σου, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τοὺς οἰκτειρμούς σου τοὺς πολλούς, κύριε.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַטֵּ֨ה אֱלֹהַ֥י אָזְנְךָ֮ וּֽשֲׁמָע֒ פקחה עֵינֶ֗יךָ וּרְאֵה֙ שֹֽׁמְמֹתֵ֔ינוּ וְהָעִ֕יר אֲשֶׁר נִקְרָ֥א שִׁמְךָ֖ עָלֶ֑יהָ כִּ֣י לֹ֣א עַל צִדְקֹתֵ֗ינוּ אֲנַ֨חְנוּ מַפִּילִ֤ים תַּחֲנוּנֵ֨ינוּ֙ לְפָנֶ֔יךָ כִּ֖י עַל רַחֲמֶ֥יךָ הָרַבִּֽים
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Letter CXI
4. Nay, can we be better men than Daniel himself, concerning whom God, speaking to the prince of Tyre, says by the prophet Ezekiel, “Art thou wiser than Daniel?” who also is placed among the three righteous men to whom alone God saith that He would grant deliverance, pointing, doubtless, in them to three representative righteous men, declaring that he would deliver only Noah, Daniel, and Job, and that they should save along with themselves neither son nor daughter, but only their own souls? Nevertheless, read also the prayer of Daniel, and see how, when in captivity, he confesses not only the sins of his people, but his own also, and acknowledges that because of these the justice of God has visited them with the punishment of captivity and with reproach. …
Theodoret Dialogues. The “Eranistes” or “Polymorphus” of the Blessed Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrus, The Unconfounded
Eran. But he shall be told again how the divine Scripture, when speaking of God, mentions even parts of the body as “Incline thine ear and hear” and “Open thine eyes and see” and “The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it” and “Thy hands have made me and fashioned me” and countless other passages.
St Gregory Nazianzen The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son
XII. Let them quote in the seventh place that The Son came down from Heaven, not to do His own Will, but the Will of Him That sent Him. Well, if this had not been said by Himself Who came down, we should say that the phrase was modelled as issuing from the Human Nature, not from Him who is conceived of in His character as the Saviour, for His Human Will cannot be opposed to God, seeing it is altogether taken into God; but conceived of simply as in our nature, inasmuch as the human will does not completely follow the Divine, but for the most part struggles against and resists it. For we understand in the same way the words, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me; Nevertheless let not what I will but Thy Will prevail. For it is not likely that He did not know whether it was possible or not, or that He would oppose will to will. …