¹⁹ Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;

²⁸ Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you this day;

¹ > Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

¹ > Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

² Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; For to you do I pray.

¹ > May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

² Send you help from the sanctuary, Grant you support from Zion,

³ Remember all your offerings, And accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah.

²⁰ Honor your covenant, For haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

² Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

¹⁷ Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

¹⁸ My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.

¹⁹ Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don't defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.

¹ He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

² saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.

³ A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'

⁴ He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

⁵ yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"

⁶ The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

⁷ Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

²⁰ Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,