⁴⁰ “Now, O my God, I pray, ^(A)let Your eyes be open and ^(B)Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

^6 (A)let Your ear now be attentive and Your eyes open to hear the prayer of Your slave which I am praying before You today, day and night, on behalf of the sons of Israel Your slaves, ^(B)confessing the sins of the sons of Israel which we have sinned against You; ^(C)I and my father’s house have sinned.

¹¹ O Lord, I beseech You, ^(A)may Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your slave and the prayer of Your slaves who delight to fear Your name, and make Your slave successful today and grant him compassion before this man.”

Now I was the ^(B)cupbearer to the king.