Daniel 9:5-11

5 ¹we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and ²rebelled, even ³turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.

6 "Moreover, 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 ⁶open 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 ⁷all 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 ⁸compassion and forgiveness, for we have ⁹rebelled against Him;

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

11 "Indeed ¹¹all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the ¹²curse 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.

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Daniel 9:5-11 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 12

1. 1 Kings 8:48; Nehemiah 9:33; Psalms 106:6; Isaiah 64:5-7; Jeremiah 14:7
2. Lamentations 1:18, 20
3. Psalms 119:176; Isaiah 53:6; Daniel 9:11
4. 2 Chronicles 36:16; Jeremiah 44:4, 5
5. Jeremiah 23:6; Jeremiah 33:16; Daniel 9:18
6. Psalms 44:15; Jeremiah 2:26, 27; Jeremiah 3:25
7. Deuteronomy 4:27
8. Nehemiah 9:17; Psalms 130:4
9. Psalms 106:43; Jeremiah 14:7; Daniel 9:5, 6
10. 2 Kings 17:13-15; 2 Kings 18:12
11. Isaiah 1:3, 4; Jeremiah 8:5-10
12. Deuteronomy 27:15-26

Footnotes 4

[a]. Lit "the shame of face"
[b]. Lit "The shame of face"
[c]. Or "though"
[d]. Or "laws"