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 8:3Yahweh says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’”
• Ps 87:1–3A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
• Dan 9:20While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;
• Ps 31:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.
• Joel 3:17“So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.
• Exod 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
• Ps 71:2Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
• Ps 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
• Lam 2:15–16All 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’?”
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Neh 9:8found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
• 1 Sam 2:7Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
• 2 Th 1:6Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
• Luke 11:47–51Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
• Isa 64:9–11Don’t be furious, Yahweh, and don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
• Ps 143:1A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
• Ezek 5:14“‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.
• Ps 41:13Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.
• Jer 24:9I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
• Jer 29:18I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;
• Lev 26:39–40Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.
• Mic 6:4–5For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
• Matt 23:31–32Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
• Lam 1:8–9Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she has become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
• 1 Kgs 9:7–9then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
• 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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