Daniel 9:5

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
sinned	חָטָ֥אנוּ cha.Ta.nu	H2398	properly · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common plural
iniquity	וְעָוִ֖ינוּ ve.'a.Vi.nu	H5753	to crook · conjunction + verb, qal perfect, 1st person common plural
wickedly	הִרְשַׁ֣עְנוּ ve.hir.sha'.nu	H7561	to be (causatively · verb, hiphil perfect, 1st person common plural
rebelled	וּמָרָ֑דְנוּ u.ma.Ra.de.nu	H4775	to rebel · conjunction + verb, qal perfect, 1st person common plural
departing	וְס֥וֹר ve.Sor	H5493	to turn off (literal or figurative) · conjunction + verb, qal infinitive absolute
precepts	מִמִּצְוֹתֶ֖ךָ mi.mitz.vo.Te.kha	H4687	a command · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
judgments	וּמִמִּשְׁפָּטֶֽיךָ u.mi.mish.pa.Tei.kha	H4941	properly · conjunction + preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

Malachi 3:7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you…
Daniel 9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and…
Daniel 9:15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at…
Psalms 106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Psalms 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Isaiah 64:5-7 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned:…
Jeremiah 14:7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee…
Lamentations 1:20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the swo…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Daniel 9:4-19

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. Note, In every prayer we must make confession, not only of the sins we have been guilty of (which we commonly call confession), but of our faith in God and dependence upon him, our sorrow for sin and our resolutions against it. It must be our confession, must be the language of our own convictions and that which we ourselves do heartily subscribe to. Let us go over the several parts of this prayer, which we have reason to think that he offered up much more largely than is here recorded, these being only the heads of it. I. Here is his humble, serious, reveren…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Daniel 9:5

Compare Nehemiah's confession (Neh. 9:1-38). sinned . . . committed iniquity . . . done wickedly . . . rebelled--a climax. Erred in ignorance . . . sinned by infirmity . . . habitually and wilfully done wickedness . . . as open and obstinate rebels set ourselves against God.

Adam Clarke on Daniel 9:4

Keeping the covenant - Fidelity and truth are characteristics of God. He had never yet broken his engagements to his followers, and was ever showing mercy to men.

John Gill on Daniel 9:5

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,.... Some think there is a gradation in these words; that they had committed some sins through error and ignorance; others through infirmity and obliquity, or in the perverseness of their spirits, and the crookedness of their ways; and others wilfully and in malice, in the wickedness of their hearts; and others were open acts of hostility against God, casting off his yoke, and refusing obedience to him, and obstinately persisting therein. Jacchiades refers them to sins of actions, words, and thoughts, which they proudly and presumptuously committed. This heap of phrases seems to be used to take in all kind…

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The Church Fathers

Although Daniel has already received manifold grace due to his faith and innocence and although he has received quite a reputation before the Lord in regard to his virtues and praises, he strives with fasting to be worthy of God; he puts on sackcloth and ashes and makes confession with tears.
— Cyprian, Treatise III. On the Lapsed 31

Verse 5. "'We have sinned, we have behaved wickedly and impiously, and we have departed...'" He reviews the sins of the people as if he were personally guilty, on the ground of his being one of the people, just as we read the Apostle does also in his Epistle to the Romans.
— Jerome, St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER NINE

Then to bring out God's constant care for them and the people's great insensitivity, [Daniel] went on, "We have not hearkened to your servants the prophets, who kept speaking in your name to our kings, to our rulers, to our fathers and to the whole people of the land." Your grace did not cease watching over us and speaking through the prophets, at one time to kings and rulers, at another to priests and teachers, referring to them as fathers, and on many occasions to the whole people. Yet even when this happened, we continued to contradict you.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 9:6

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Dictionary and topics

Confession — (1) An open profession of faith (Luke 12:8). (2.) An acknowledment of sins to God (Lev. 16:21; Ezra 9:5-15; Dan. 9:3-12), and to a neighbour whom we have wronged (James 5:16; Matt. 18:15).
Daniel — God is my judge, or judge of God. (1.) David’s second son, “born unto him in Hebron, of Abigail the Carmelitess” (1 Chr. 3:1). He is called also Chileab (2 Sam. 3:3). (2.) One of the four great…
Nation · Chastised — Chastised
Prayer · Accompanied with: Confession — Accompanied with: Confession
Prayer, Intercessory · Exemplified: Daniel — Exemplified: Daniel
Rebellion Against God · Exhibited in: Departing from his precepts — Exhibited in: Departing from his precepts

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Daniel 9:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Daniel 9:4-19

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Daniel 9:5

Adam Clarke on Daniel 9:4

John Gill on Daniel 9:5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Daniel 9:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Daniel 9:4-19

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Daniel 9:5

Adam Clarke on Daniel 9:4

John Gill on Daniel 9:5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Daniel 9:5-7

Keil & Delitzsch on Daniel 9:3-19

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Daniel 9:5

Rashi on Daniel 9:5