Daniel 9:16

Daniel asks God, for the sake of His righteousness, to turn His anger from Jerusalem, His holy city now reproached for their sins. He pleads for mercy grounded in God's own righteousness.

Cross-references · 27

• Zech 8:3This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”
• Ps 87:1–3A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. He has founded His city on the holy mountains.
• Dan 9:20While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—
• Ps 31:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness.
• Joel 3:17Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.
• Exod 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
• Ps 71:2In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.
• Ps 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
• Lam 2:15–16All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Neh 9:8You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
• 1 Sam 2:7The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
• 2 Th 1:6After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
• Luke 11:47–51Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
• Isa 64:9–11Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
• Ps 143:1A Psalm of David. O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.
• Ezek 5:14I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
• Ps 41:13Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
• Jer 24:9I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
• Jer 29:18I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
• Lev 26:39–40Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
• Mic 6:4–5For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.
• Matt 23:31–32So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
• Lam 1:8–9Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
• 1 Kgs 9:7–9then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
• Jer 32:32because of all the evil the children of Israel and of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their officials, their priests and prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.
• Ps 106:6–48We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

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