Daniel 9:11-14

11 All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. “Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you.

12 You have fulfilled the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster. Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

13 Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth.

14 The LORD did not hesitate to bring the disaster on us, for the LORD our God is righteous in everything he does; yet we have not obeyed him.

Daniel 9:11-14 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.

Cross References

• 1. S Jeremiah 2:29
• 2. 2 Kings 22:16
• 3. S Deuteronomy 11:26; S Deuteronomy 13:15; S Deuteronomy 28:15
• 4. 2 Kings 17:23
• 5. Isaiah 1:4-6; Jeremiah 8:5-10
• 6. S Isaiah 44:26; Zechariah 1:6
• 7. S Jeremiah 44:23
• 8. Jeremiah 30:7
• 9. Jeremiah 44:2-6; Ezekiel 5:9; Daniel 12:1; Joel 2:2; Zechariah 7:12
• 10. S Deuteronomy 4:29; S Isaiah 31:1
• 11. S Isaiah 9:13; Jeremiah 2:30
• 12. S Jeremiah 18:8; S Jeremiah 44:27
• 13. S Genesis 18:25; S 2 Chronicles 12:6; S Jeremiah 12:1
• 14. S Nehemiah 9:33; S Jeremiah 32:23; S Jeremiah 40:3