⁶ My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.

² He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days.

⁷ In the day of my trouble I send up my cry to you; for you will give me an answer.

³ Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

⁴ And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

¹⁶ As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.

¹⁹ But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

²⁰ Praise be to God who has not taken away his good faith and his mercy from me.

² Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:

¹⁷ Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.

²⁰ But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.

¹⁷ And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord.

¹⁸ O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.

¹⁹ O Lord, give ear; O Lord, have forgiveness; O Lord, take note and do; let there be no more waiting; for the honour of your name, O my God, because your town and your people are named by your name.