Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
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Gill's Exposition
Let thine ear be now attentive,.... To his prayer, as in Neh 1:11,
and thine eyes open; to behold with pity and compassion the distressed case of Jerusalem, and the Jews in it:
I pray before thee…
Adam Clarke
Let thine ear - Hear what we say and confess.
Thine eyes open - see what we suffer.
We have here Nehemiah's prayer, a prayer that has reference to all the prayers which he had for some time before been putting up to God day and night, while he continued his sorrows for the…
Cambridge Bible
The humble access leading to the confession of sin.
let thine ear now be attentive The word -attentive" is not very common in the original. It occurs again in Neh 1:11, in Psa 130:2. And with the…
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