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 8:3Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
• Ps 87:1–3His foundation is in the holy mountains.
• Dan 9:20And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
• Ps 31:1In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
• Joel 3:17So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
• Exod 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
• Ps 71:2Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
• Ps 79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
• Lam 2:15–16All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole 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 9:8And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
• 1 Sam 2:7The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
• 2 Th 1:6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
• Luke 11:47–51Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
• Isa 64:9–11Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
• Ps 143:1Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
• Ezek 5:14Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
• Ps 41:13Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
• Jer 24:9And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
• Jer 29:18And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
• Lev 26:39–40And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
• Mic 6:4–5For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
• Matt 23:31–32Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
• Lam 1:8–9Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
• 1 Kgs 9:7–9Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
• Jer 32:32Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
• Ps 106:6–48We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

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