Daniel 9:4-19

4 I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed and said, "Alas, O Lord, the ¹great and awesome God, who ²keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments,

5 ³we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and ⁴rebelled, even ⁵turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.

6 "Moreover, we have not ⁶listened 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 "⁷Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us ⁸open 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 ⁹all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.

8 "Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our kings, our princes and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

9 "To the Lord our God belong ¹⁰compassion and forgiveness, for we have ¹¹rebelled against Him;

10 nor have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His teachings which He ¹²set before us through His servants the prophets.

11 "Indeed ¹³all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the ¹⁴curse 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.

12 "Thus He has ¹⁵confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our ¹⁶rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has ¹⁷not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem.

13 "As it is written in the ¹⁸law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have ¹⁹not sought the favor * of the LORD our God by ²⁰turning from our iniquity and giving attention to Your truth.

14 "Therefore the LORD has ²¹kept the calamity in store and brought it on us; for the LORD our God is ²²righteous 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 ²³brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have ²⁴made a name for Yourself, as it is this day -we have sinned, we have been wicked.

16 "O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your ²⁵anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your ²⁶holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a ²⁷reproach to all those around us.

17 "So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, ²⁸let Your face shine on Your ²⁹desolate sanctuary.

18 "O my God, ³⁰incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and ³¹see our desolations and the city which is ³²called by Your name; for we are not ³³presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.

19 "O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, ³⁴do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name."

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Daniel 9:4-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DANIEL 9

This chapter contains a prayer of Daniel, and the answer to it. The time, occasion, and manner of his prayer, or circumstances of it, are observed, Da 9:1-3, the parts of it, an address unto God, under various suitable epithets and characters, Da 9:4 confession of sin, of his own, of the inhabitants of the land, kings, princes, and people, which are largely dwelt upon and exaggerated, Da 9:5-15 and petitions for mercy, Da 9:16-19, then the answer follows; the time when it was ordered and given, and the person by whom it was sent, are expressed, Da 9:20-23 who delivered to him the vision of the seventy weeks to be considered by him; in which both the work of the Messiah, and the time of his coming, are clearly pointed out, Da 9:24-27.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 34

1. Deuteronomy 7:21; Nehemiah 9:32
2. Deuteronomy 7:9
3. 1 Kings 8:48; Nehemiah 9:33; Psalms 106:6; Isaiah 64:5-7; Jeremiah 14:7
4. Lamentations 1:18, 20
5. Psalms 119:176; Isaiah 53:6; Daniel 9:11
6. 2 Chronicles 36:16; Jeremiah 44:4, 5
7. Jeremiah 23:6; Jeremiah 33:16; Daniel 9:18
8. Psalms 44:15; Jeremiah 2:26, 27; Jeremiah 3:25
9. Deuteronomy 4:27
10. Nehemiah 9:17; Psalms 130:4
11. Psalms 106:43; Jeremiah 14:7; Daniel 9:5, 6
12. 2 Kings 17:13-15; 2 Kings 18:12
13. Isaiah 1:3, 4; Jeremiah 8:5-10
14. Deuteronomy 27:15-26
15. Isaiah 44:26; Jeremiah 44:2-6; Lamentations 2:17; Zechariah 1:6
16. Job 12:17; Psalms 82:2-7; Psalms 148:11
17. Lamentations 1:12; Lamentations 2:13; Ezekiel 5:9
18. Leviticus 26:14-45; Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Daniel 9:11
19. Job 36:13; Isaiah 9:13; Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 5:3
20. Jeremiah 31:18
21. Jeremiah 31:28; Jeremiah 44:27
22. Psalms 51:14; Daniel 9:7
23. Deuteronomy 5:15
24. Nehemiah 9:10; Jeremiah 32:20
25. Jeremiah 32:31, 32
26. Psalms 87:1-3; Daniel 9:20; Joel 3:17; Zechariah 8:3
27. Ezekiel 5:14
28. Numbers 6:24-26; Ps 80:3, 7, 19
29. Lamentations 5:18
30. Isaiah 37:17
31. Psalms 80:14
32. Jeremiah 7:10-12
33. Jeremiah 36:7
34. Psalms 44:23; Psalms 74:10, 11

Footnotes 12

[a]. Lit "the shame of face"
[b]. Lit "The shame of face"
[c]. Or "though"
[d]. Or "laws"
[e]. Lit "judges who judged us"
[f]. Lit "softened the face of"
[g]. Or "having insight into"
[h]. Lit "watched over the evil"
[i]. Lit "righteousnesses"
[j]. Lit "the sake of the Lord"
[k]. Lit "causing to fall"
[l]. Lit "our righteousnesses"