New American Standard Bible 1995

Daniel 9:5-16

5 1we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and 2rebelled, even 3turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances. 6Moreover, we have not 4listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers and all the people of the land.

7“5Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us 6 7open shame, as it is this day--to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in 8all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You. 8 9Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our kings, our princes and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. 9To the Lord our God belong 10compassion and forgiveness, 11for we have 12rebelled against Him; 10nor have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His 13teachings which He 14set before us through His servants the prophets. 11Indeed 15all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the 16curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him. 12Thus He has 17confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our 18 19rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has 20not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem. 13As it is written in the 21law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have 22not 23sought the favor of the Lord our God by 24turning from our iniquity and 25giving attention to Your truth. 14Therefore the Lord has 26 27kept the calamity in store and brought it on us; for the Lord our God is 28righteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.

15“And now, O Lord our God, who have 29brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have 30made a name for Yourself, as it is this day--we have sinned, we have been wicked. 16O Lord, in accordance with all Your 31righteous acts, let now Your 32anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your 33holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a 34reproach to all those around us.

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Notes

1. Daniel 9:5 1 Kin 8:48; Neh 9:33; Ps 106:6; Is 64:5-7; Jer 14:7 ↩
2. Daniel 9:5 Lam 1:18, 20 ↩
3. Daniel 9:5 Ps 119:176; Is 53:6; Dan 9:11 ↩
4. Daniel 9:6 2 Chr 36:16; Jer 44:4, 5 ↩
5. Daniel 9:7 Jer 23:6; 33:16; Dan 9:18 ↩
6. Daniel 9:7 Lit the shame of face ↩
7. Daniel 9:7 Ps 44:15; Jer 2:26, 27; 3:25 ↩
8. Daniel 9:7 Deut 4:27 ↩
9. Daniel 9:8 Lit The shame of face ↩
10. Daniel 9:9 Neh 9:17; Ps 130:4 ↩
11. Daniel 9:9 Or though ↩
12. Daniel 9:9 Ps 106:43; Jer 14:7; Dan 9:5, 6 ↩
13. Daniel 9:10 Or laws ↩
14. Daniel 9:10 2 Kin 17:13-15; 18:12 ↩
15. Daniel 9:11 Is 1:3, 4; Jer 8:5-10 ↩
16. Daniel 9:11 Deut 27:15-26 ↩
17. Daniel 9:12 Is 44:26; Jer 44:2-6; Lam 2:17; Zech 1:6 ↩
18. Daniel 9:12 Lit judges who judged us ↩
19. Daniel 9:12 Job 12:17; Ps 82:2-7; 148:11 ↩
20. Daniel 9:12 Lam 1:12; 2:13; Ezek 5:9 ↩
21. Daniel 9:13 Lev 26:14-45; Deut 28:15-68; Dan 9:11 ↩
22. Daniel 9:13 Job 36:13; Is 9:13; Jer 2:30; 5:3 ↩
23. Daniel 9:13 Lit softened the face of ↩
24. Daniel 9:13 Jer 31:18 ↩
25. Daniel 9:13 Or having insight into ↩
26. Daniel 9:14 Lit watched over the evil ↩
27. Daniel 9:14 Jer 31:28; 44:27 ↩
28. Daniel 9:14 Ps 51:14; Dan 9:7 ↩
29. Daniel 9:15 Deut 5:15 ↩
30. Daniel 9:15 Neh 9:10; Jer 32:20 ↩
31. Daniel 9:16 Lit righteousnesses ↩
32. Daniel 9:16 Jer 32:31, 32 ↩
33. Daniel 9:16 Ps 87:1-3; Dan 9:20; Joel 3:17; Zech 8:3 ↩
34. Daniel 9:16 Ezek 5:14 ↩

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