תַּחֲנוּן

Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.

Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

Blessed be the LORD, for He has heard my cry for mercy.

In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and attend to my plea for mercy.

I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy.

O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

I say to the LORD, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for help.

A Psalm of David. O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.

The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.

A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.

They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.

Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

At the beginning of your petitions, an answer went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly precious. So consider the message and understand the vision:

Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.