Daniel 9:8

Lord, we and our kings and our other rulers and our other ancestors have done very shameful things and have sinned against you.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

In Context

7Lord, you always do what is righteous/just/fair, but we have caused ourselves to be ashamed [IDM]. This is still true about all of the Israelis who live in Jerusalem and who live in other places in Judea. It is also true about all us Israelis whom you scattered, who were taken to other countries, some near Israel and some far away, because we were very unfaithful/disloyal to you.

9Although we have rebelled against you, you act mercifully toward us and you are willing/ready to forgive us.

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Cross References

2 Kings 21:15I will do this because my people have done things that I consider to be very evil, things which have caused me to become very angry. They have caused me to become angry continually, ever since their ancestors left Egypt.”

Nehemiah 1:6Now please look down and listen to what I am praying. I pray during the day and at night for your Israeli people. I confess that we Israeli people have sinned. Even my family and I have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 7:19But I am not [RHQ] the one whom they are hurting; they are really [RHQ] hurting themselves by doing these things for which they should be very ashamed!”

Lamentations 1:7The people of Jerusalem are sad and scattered, and they think about the previous greatness of the city. But now our enemies have captured the city, and there is no one to help the people. Our enemies destroyed the city and laughed while they were doing that.

Lamentations 3:42“We have sinned and rebelled against you, and you have not forgiven us.

Ezekiel 5:6But the wicked people of Jerusalem rebelled against obeying my commands, and they show that they are more wicked than the people of the surrounding countries. They rejected my laws and refused to obey my commands.’

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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