Daniel 9:9
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses; for we have rebelled against him;
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 34:6And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, the LORD, a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth;
2 Samuel 24:14And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Nehemiah 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Psalms 62:12Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Psalms 86:15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
Psalms 130:4But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
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 →