17Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
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Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-19)We have here Daniel’s prayer to God as his God, and the confession which he joined with that prayer: I prayed, and made my confession . Note, In every prayer we must make confession, not only of the sins we have been guilty of (which we commonly call confession ), but of our faith in God and dependence upon him, our sorrow for sin and our resolutions against it. It must be our confession, must be…
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