Daniel 9:3-13

3 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by ¹prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

4 I prayed to the LORD my God and ²made confession, saying, ³"O Lord, the ⁴great and awesome God, who ⁵keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,

5 ⁶we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly ⁷and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.

6 ⁸We have not listened to ⁹your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to ¹⁰our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

7 To you, ¹¹O 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, ¹²those who are near and ¹³those who are far away, in ¹⁴all the lands to which you have driven them, because of ¹⁵the 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 ¹⁶we have sinned against you.

9 ¹⁷To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

10 ¹⁸and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by ¹⁹his servants the prophets.

11 ²⁰All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, ²¹refusing to obey your voice. ²²And the curse and oath ²³that are written in the Law of ²⁴Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because ²⁵we have sinned against him.

12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against ²⁶our rulers who ruled us,^[a] by ²⁷bringing upon us a great calamity. ²⁸For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.

13 ²⁹As 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, ³⁰turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.

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Daniel 9:3-13 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 30

1. ver. 17, 18, 23; [Nehemiah 1:4]
2. ver. 20; [Ezra 10:1; Nehemiah 1:6]
3. Nehemiah 1:5; Nehemiah 9:32
4. Nehemiah 1:5; Nehemiah 9:32
5. Deuteronomy 7:9
6. ver. 15
7. Lamentations 3:42
8. 2 Chronicles 36:15, 16
9. Ezra 9:11; Zechariah 1:6
10. Ezra 9:7; Nehemiah 9:34
11. [ver. 14; Lamentations 1:18]
12. [Esther 9:20]
13. [Esther 9:20]
14. See Jeremiah 8:3
15. Leviticus 26:40
16. [See ver. 5 above]
17. Nehemiah 9:17; Psalms 86:15
18. [See ver. 6 above]
19. [See ver. 6 above]
20. See Isaiah 1:4-6
21. [Jeremiah 40:3; Jeremiah 44:23]
22. Jeremiah 44:22
23. See Leviticus 26:14-45; Deuteronomy 28:15-68
24. 1 Chronicles 6:49; 2 Chronicles 24:9; Nehemiah 10:29
25. [See ver. 5 above]
26. [Psalms 82:2, 3]
27. Jeremiah 39:16
28. Ezekiel 5:9; [Lamentations 1:12]
29. [See ver. 11 above]
30. Hosea 7:10

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or our judges who judged us

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