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We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
Daniel 9:5 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;
  • BSB we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
  • NKJV we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.
  • NASB we have sinned, we have done wrong, and acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.
  • NLT But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations.

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Quick answer

Daniel confesses that the people have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled, and turned from God's commands. He owns the nation's guilt fully and without excuse.

Overview

With piled-up verbs, Daniel makes a thorough confession of Israel's manifold sin and rebellion against God's law. Notably he says we, identifying with his people's guilt though personally faithful. This solidarity in confession models intercessory humility and points to Christ, who though sinless fully identified with sinners to bear their guilt.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Mal 3:7Even 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, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
  • Dan 9:11Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
  • Dan 9:15And 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 this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
  • Ps 106:6We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
  • Isa 64:5–7Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
  • Jer 14:7O 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.
  • Heb 3:12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
  • Lam 1:20Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
  • Ps 18:21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
  • Ezek 6:9And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
  • Jer 3:25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
  • Ps 119:102I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
  • Neh 1:6–8Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.
  • Hos 1:2The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
  • Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • 1 Kgs 8:47–50Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
  • 2 Chr 6:37–39Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
  • Neh 9:33–34Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
  • Ezra 9:6And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
  • Isa 59:13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

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Christ at the center

Daniel sees the stone cut without hands that shatters the kingdoms, and 'one like a son of man' given everlasting dominion — titles and visions Jesus claims as his own.

How Daniel 9:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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