Daniel 9:14

9:14 The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just ¹  in all he has done, ²  and we have not obeyed him. ³ 

Daniel 9:8

9:8 O LORD, we have been humiliated ⁴  – our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors – because we have sinned against you.

Daniel 9:10

9:10 We have not obeyed ⁵  the LORD our God by living according to ⁶  his laws ⁷  that he set before us through his servants the prophets.

Daniel 9:20

Gabriel Gives to Daniel a Prophecy of Seventy Weeks

9:20 While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning his holy mountain ⁸  –

Daniel 9:2

9:2 in the first year of his reign ⁹  I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books ¹⁰  that, according to the word of the LORD ¹¹  disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem ¹²  were seventy in number.

Daniel 9:13

9:13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify ¹³  the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom ¹⁴  from your reliable moral standards. ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Or “righteous.”

² tn Heb “in all his deeds which he has done.”

³ tn Heb “we have not listened to his voice.”

⁴ tn Heb “to us (belongs) shame of face.”

⁷ tn Heb “paid attention to the voice of,” which is an idiomatic expression for obedience (cf. NASB “nor have we obeyed the voice of”).

⁸ tn Heb “to walk in.”

⁹ tc The LXX and Vulgate have the singular.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the holy mountain of my God.”

¹³ tc This phrase, repeated from v. 1, is absent in Theodotion.

¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text has “books”; the word “sacred” has been added in the translation to clarify that it is Scriptures that are referred to.

¹⁵ sn The tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters which constitute the divine Name, YHWH) appears eight times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the book of Daniel.

¹⁶ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁶ tn Heb “we have not pacified the face of.”

¹⁷ tn Or “by gaining insight.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “by your truth.” The Hebrew term does not refer here to abstract truth, however, but to the reliable moral guidance found in the covenant law. See vv 10-11.