9:17 “So now, our God, accept 2 the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to 3 your devastated sanctuary for your own sake. 4 9:18 Listen attentively, 5 my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins 6 and the city called by your name. 7 For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, 8 but because your compassion is abundant. 9:19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.” 9
18:1 Then 10 Jesus 11 told them a parable to show them they should always 12 pray and not lose heart. 13 18:2 He said, 14 “In a certain city 15 there was a judge 16 who neither feared God nor respected people. 17