Daniel 9:20

And while I was speaking, and davening tefillos, and making vidduy (confession of sin) for me and for Ami Yisroel, and laying my techinnah (petition) before Hashem Elohai for the sake of the Har Kodesh of Elohai;

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;

In Context

19Adonoi, hear; Adonoi, forgive; Adonoi, hearken and act; delay not, for Thine own sake, O Elohai; for Thy city and Thy people are called by Thy Name.

21Yea, while I was davening in tefillah, even haish + 9:21 See Dan 8:15 Gavriel, whom I had seen in the chazon in the beginning, being caused to come in full flight, reached me about the time of the minchat erev.

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Cross References

Ezra 10:1Now while Ezra was davening and making vidduy, weeping and prostrating himself before the Beis HaElohim, a Kahal rav me'od, anashim, nashim, and yeladim, gathered to him from Yisroel, for the people wept bitterly.

Psalms 137:5If I forget thee, O Yerushalayim, 1 let my yamin (right hand) forget. + 137:5 i.e., have paralysis 1

Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely indeed there is not a tzaddik upon earth, that doeth tov, and sinneth not. + 7:20 Ro 3:23

Isaiah 56:7Even them will I bring to My Har Kodesh, 1 and make them have simcha in My Bais Tefillah; 1 their olot and their zevakhim 1 shall be accepted upon Mine Mizbe'ach; 1 for Mine Bais shall be called 1 Bais Tefillah l'khol HaAmim (House of Prayer for All Nations). 1

Isaiah 62:6I have set shomrim upon thy chomot, O Yerushalayim, 1 which shall never hold their peace yom nor lailah; 1 ye that remind Hashem, keep not silence, 1

Daniel 9:3And I set my face unto Adonoi HaElohim, to plead by tefillah and tachanunim (supplications), with a tzom, and sackcloth, and ashes;

Matthew Henry on Daniel 9:5-20

Daniel's Confession and Prayer; Daniel's Prayer for His People. ( b. c. 538.) 4 And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; 5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: 6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our… Read the whole commentary →

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