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Dan 9:18 — O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

incline		1Ki 8:29; 2Ki 19:16; Psa 17:6,7; Isa 37:17; Isa 63:15-19; Isa 64:12
behold		Exd 3:7; Psa 80:14-19
which is called by thy name		Heb. whereupon thy name is called. Jer 7:10; Jer 14:9; Jer 15:16; Jer 25:29; 1Cr 1:2
for we		Isa 64:6; Jer 14:7; Eze 36:32
present		Heb. cause to fall. Jer 36:7; Jer 37:20; *marg:

Correlating Passages

incline

	1Ki 8:29	That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
	2Ki 19:16	LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
	Psa 17:6	I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, [and hear] my speech.
	Psa 17:7	Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust [in thee] from those that rise up [against them].
	Isa 37:17	Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
	Isa 63:15	Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where [is] thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
	Isa 63:16	Doubtless thou [art] our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, [art] our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting.
	Isa 63:17	O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
	Isa 63:18	The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
	Isa 63:19	We are [thine]: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
	Isa 64:12	Wilt thou refrain thyself for these [things], O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

behold

	Exd 3:7	And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
	Psa 80:14	Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
	Psa 80:15	And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch [that] thou madest strong for thyself.
	Psa 80:16	[It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
	Psa 80:17	Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself.
	Psa 80:18	So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
	Psa 80:19	Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

which is called by thy name

	Jer 7:10	And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
	Jer 14:9	Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man [that] cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, [art] in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
	Jer 15:16	Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
	Jer 25:29	For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
	1Cr 1:2	Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

for we

	Isa 64:6	But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
	Jer 14:7	O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou [it] for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
	Eze 36:32	Not for your sakes do I [this], saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

present

	Jer 36:7	It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
	Jer 37:20	Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

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Scott, Thomas. "Daniel 9:18," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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