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 wrongdoing and giving attention to Your truth.
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- WEB As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.
- KJV As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
- BSB Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.
- NKJV “As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.
- NLT Every curse written against us in the Law of Moses has come true. Yet we have refused to seek mercy from the Lord our God by turning from our sins and recognizing his truth.
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Though all the calamity foretold in Moses came upon them, they still did not repent or seek God's favor. Daniel confesses their persistent hardness even under judgment.
Overview
Daniel admits that even the fulfilling of Moses' warnings did not turn the people to entreat God or gain insight into His truth. Judgment alone did not soften them; only grace can. This sober confession exposes the depth of human sinfulness and the need for God to grant the very repentance He requires, a grace fully given in the new covenant.
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- Deut 28:15–68But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you.
- Isa 9:13Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
- Jer 2:30“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Hos 7:10The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.
- Lev 26:14–46“‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;
- Dan 9:11Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.
- John 8:32You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
- John 6:45It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
- Hos 7:14They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
- Job 36:13“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
- John 10:35If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
- Jer 31:18“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
- Jer 5:3O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
- Luke 24:45Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
- Ps 119:27Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
- Deut 29:4But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
- Jas 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
- Isa 42:9Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”
- Hos 7:7They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
- Ps 119:73Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
- Ps 85:4Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
- Eph 4:21if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
- Ps 119:18Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
- Lam 2:15–17All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
- Lam 5:21Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.
- Eph 1:17–18that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
- Jer 44:27Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.
- Isa 64:7There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
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