Please, Lord, let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and to that of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success today, and have compassion on him in the presence of this man.

At the time, I was the king’s cupbearer.

let Your eyes be open and Your ears be attentive to hear Your servant’s prayer that I now pray to You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins we have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

During the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,

Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position as cupbearer, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.

Please rescue me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.

“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” He said. “It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: “In my dream there was a vine in front of me.

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I remember my faults.

May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived.”

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, the word of the Lord spoken through Jeremiah was fulfilled. The Lord put it into the mind of King Cyrus to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and to put it in writing:

—came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested because the hand of Yahweh his God was on him.

Praise Yahweh the God of our fathers, who has put it into the king’s mind to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem,

And let me have a letter written to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to rebuild the gates of the temple’s fortress, the city wall, and the home where I will live.” The king granted my requests, for I was graciously strengthened by my God.

Lord, hear my prayer;
listen to my plea for mercy.

Lord, listen to my voice;
let Your ears be attentive
to my cry for help.

Because they hated knowledge,
didn’t choose to fear the Lord,

A king’s heart is like streams of water in the Lord’s hand:
He directs it wherever He chooses.

Yes, Yahweh, we wait for You
in the path of Your judgments.
Our desire is for Your name and renown.

Pray for us; for we are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything.

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Summary

O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

Bible References

Let now

let Your eyes be open and Your ears be attentive to hear Your servant’s prayer that I now pray to You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins we have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.
Lord, hear my prayer;
listen to my plea for mercy.
Lord, listen to my voice;
let Your ears be attentive
to my cry for help.

Who desire

Because they hated knowledge,
didn’t choose to fear the Lord,
Yes, Yahweh, we wait for You
in the path of Your judgments.
Our desire is for Your name and renown.
Pray for us; for we are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything.

Grant

And let me have a letter written to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to rebuild the gates of the temple’s fortress, the city wall, and the home where I will live.” The king granted my requests, for I was graciously strengthened by my God.
Please rescue me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.
May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived.”
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, the word of the Lord spoken through Jeremiah was fulfilled. The Lord put it into the mind of King Cyrus to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and to put it in writing:
—came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested because the hand of Yahweh his God was on him.
A king’s heart is like streams of water in the Lord’s hand:
He directs it wherever He chooses.

For i was

During the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,
Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I remember my faults.

General references

And I will give these people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.
I will grant you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and allow you to return to your own soil.
God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official,

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