O Lord, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you.
Parallel translations
- WEB Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
- KJV O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
- BSB O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
- NKJV “O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
- NASB Open shame belongs to us, Lord, to our kings, our leaders, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
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Quick answer
Daniel repeats that open shame belongs to the people and their leaders because they sinned against God. He reinforces the nation's responsibility for its disgrace.
Overview
Returning to the theme of confusion of face, Daniel again places shame on kings, princes, and fathers for sinning against the Lord. The repetition deepens the confession's sincerity. Such honest, unflinching acknowledgment of sin, without shifting blame, prepares the way for the appeal to God's mercy that follows.
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Cross-references · 6
- Dan 9:6–7neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
- Lam 3:42“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
- Lam 1:7–8Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her, The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her desolations.
- Lam 1:18“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
- Jer 14:20We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
- Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
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