Daniel 9:4-19

4 I prayed to the LORD my God and ¹made confession, saying, ²"O Lord, the ³great and awesome God, who ⁴keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,

5 ⁵we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly ⁶and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.

6 ⁷We have not listened to ⁸your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to ⁹our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

7 To you, ¹⁰O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, ¹¹those who are near and ¹²those who are far away, in ¹³all the lands to which you have driven them, because of ¹⁴the treachery that they have committed against you.

8 To us, O LORD, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because ¹⁵we have sinned against you.

9 ¹⁶To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

10 ¹⁷and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by ¹⁸his servants the prophets.

11 ¹⁹All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, ²⁰refusing to obey your voice. ²¹And the curse and oath ²²that are written in the Law of ²³Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because ²⁴we have sinned against him.

12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against ²⁵our rulers who ruled us,^[a] by ²⁶bringing upon us a great calamity. ²⁷For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.

13 ²⁸As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, ²⁹turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.

14 ³⁰Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, ³¹for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and ³²we have not obeyed his voice.

15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt ³³with a mighty hand, and ³⁴have made a name for yourself, as at this day, ³⁵we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

16 "O Lord, ³⁶according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, ³⁷your holy hill, ³⁸because for our sins, and for ³⁹the iniquities of our fathers, ⁴⁰Jerusalem and your people have become ⁴¹a byword among all who are around us.

17 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord,^[b]⁴²make your face to shine upon ⁴³your sanctuary, which is desolate.

18 ⁴⁴O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see ⁴⁵our desolations, and ⁴⁶the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.

19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. ⁴⁷Delay not, ⁴⁸for your own sake, O my God, because ⁴⁹your city and ⁵⁰your 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 50

1. ver. 20; [Ezra 10:1; Nehemiah 1:6]
2. Nehemiah 1:5; Nehemiah 9:32
3. Nehemiah 1:5; Nehemiah 9:32
4. Deuteronomy 7:9
5. ver. 15
6. Lamentations 3:42
7. 2 Chronicles 36:15, 16
8. Ezra 9:11; Zechariah 1:6
9. Ezra 9:7; Nehemiah 9:34
10. [ver. 14; Lamentations 1:18]
11. [Esther 9:20]
12. [Esther 9:20]
13. See Jeremiah 8:3
14. Leviticus 26:40
15. [See ver. 5 above]
16. Nehemiah 9:17; Psalms 86:15
17. [See ver. 6 above]
18. [See ver. 6 above]
19. See Isaiah 1:4-6
20. [Jeremiah 40:3; Jeremiah 44:23]
21. Jeremiah 44:22
22. See Leviticus 26:14-45; Deuteronomy 28:15-68
23. 1 Chronicles 6:49; 2 Chronicles 24:9; Nehemiah 10:29
24. [See ver. 5 above]
25. [Psalms 82:2, 3]
26. Jeremiah 39:16
27. Ezekiel 5:9; [Lamentations 1:12]
28. [See ver. 11 above]
29. Hosea 7:10
30. [Jeremiah 1:12]
31. Nehemiah 9:33; See ver. 7
32. ver. 10
33. Exodus 32:11; [Exodus 6:1; Nehemiah 1:10]
34. Exodus 14:18; Nehemiah 9:10
35. See ver. 5
36. Psalms 31:1; Psalms 71:2
37. ver. 20; Daniel 11:45; Jeremiah 31:23; Zechariah 8:3
38. Lamentations 1:5
39. [Exodus 20:5]
40. Lamentations 2:15, 16
41. Psalms 44:13; Psalms 79:4; Ezekiel 36:4; Micah 6:16
42. Numbers 6:25
43. Lamentations 5:18
44. 2 Kings 19:16; Isaiah 37:17
45. ver. 26; See ver. 27
46. Jeremiah 25:29
47. Psalms 40:17; Psalms 70:5
48. Psalms 25:11; Psalms 79:9
49. [See ver. 18 above]
50. Jeremiah 14:9

Footnotes 2

[a]. Or our judges who judged us
[b]. Hebrew for the Lord's sake

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