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Daniel 9:4-5 KJV
Daniel · chapter 9 · verses 4–5 · King James Version
4And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; 5We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:Daniel 9:4-5 · King James Version
Daniel 9:4-5 in context
2In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
4And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
5We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
6Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
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Key words (Strong's)
- confessionyâdâhphysically, to throw at or awayH3034 →
- departingçûwrto turn offH5493 →
- dreadfulyârêʼto fearH3372 →
- iniquityʻâvâhto crook, literally or figurativelyH5753 →
- wickedlyrâshaʻto be wrongH7561 →
- rebelledmâradto rebelH4775 →
- preceptsmitsvâha command, whether human or divineH4687 →
- prayedpâlalto judgeH6419 →
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We have here Daniel's prayer to God as his God, and the confession which he joined with that prayer: I prayed, and made my confession.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-19