Daniel 9:18

incline … and behold(lit. see)] Almost exactly the words in Hezekiah's prayer, 2 Kings 19:16 (Isaiah 37:17).

desolations Daniel 9:26: cf. Isaiah 49:19; Isaiah 61:4 (twice).

over which thy name hath been called] i.e. of which Thou art the Owner. The sense of the expression appears from 2 Samuel 12:28, -lest I take the city, and my name be called over it," in token, viz. of my having conquered it. The expression is often used, especially in Deuteronomic writers, of the people of Israel, Jerusalem, or the Temple, as Daniel 9:19; Deuteronomy 28:10; Jeremiah 7:10-11; Jeremiah 7:14; Jeremiah 7:30; Jeremiah 14:9; Jer 25:29; 1 Kings 8:43; Isaiah 63:10. The paraphrase of A.V., R.V., -which is called by my name," weakens and obscures the real force of the expression. Cf. further on Amos 9:12.

present lit. cause to fall: so Daniel 9:20; Jeremiah 38:26; Jeremiah 42:2; Jeremiah 42:9; cf. Jeremiah 36:7 (lit - their supplication will fallbefore Jehovah"), Jeremiah 37:20 (here in the sense of being accepted). The expression does not occur elsewhere in the O.T.: Prof. Kirkpatrick compares, however, Bar 2:19 (οὐ … καταβάλλομεν τὸν ἔλεον we do not cast downour supplication).

for … for properly on(the ground of).

thy great compassions] Daniel 9:9. The same expression in Nehemiah 9:19; Nehemiah 9:27; Nehemiah 9:31 (A.V., R.V., -manifold mercies"): cf. 2 Samuel 24:14 (-for his compassions are great"), Psalms 119:156.