Daniel 9:16 “O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your ange…”

Daniel 9:16

O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

World English Bible

Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

American Standard Version

O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are round about us.

Geneva Bible 1599

O Lord, according to all thy righteousnes, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy wrath be turned away from thy citie Ierusalem thine holy Mountaine: for because of our sinnes, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Ierusalem and thy people are a reproche to all that are about vs.

Darby Translation

Lord, according to all thy righteousnesses, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; for because of our sins, and because of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people [are become] a reproach to all round about us.

Young's Literal Translation

'O Lord, according to all Thy righteous acts, let turn back, I pray Thee, Thine anger and Thy fury from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mount, for by our sins, and by the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people [are] for a reproach to all our neighbours;

Bible in Basic English

O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.

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Cross references

“according”

Psalm 31:1 Psalm 71:2 1 Samuel 2:7 Nehemiah 9:8 Psalm 143:1 2 Thessalonians 1:6

Psalm 31:1 · BSB

In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness.

Psalm 71:2 · BSB

In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.

1 Samuel 2:7 · BSB

The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

Nehemiah 9:8 · BSB

You 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…

Psalm 143:1 · BSB

O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.

2 Thessalonians 1:6 · BSB

After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

“thy holy”

Zechariah 8:3 Daniel 9:20 Psalm 87:1–3 Joel 3:17

Zechariah 8:3 · BSB

This 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.”

Daniel 9:20 · BSB

While 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—

Psalm 87:1–3 · BSB

He has founded His city on the holy mountains.

Joel 3:17 · BSB

Then 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.

“for the”

Exodus 20:5 Luke 11:47–51 Psalm 106:6–48 Leviticus 26:39 Leviticus 26:40 Matthew 23:31

Exodus 20:5 · BSB

You 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,

Luke 11:47–51 · BSB

Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.

Psalm 106:6–48 · BSB

We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

Leviticus 26:39 · BSB

Those 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.

Leviticus 26:40 · BSB

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

Matthew 23:31 · BSB

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

“Jerusalem”

Psalm 79:4 1 Kings 9:7–9 Psalm 41:13 Isaiah 64:9–11 Jeremiah 24:9 Jeremiah 29:18

Psalm 79:4 · BSB

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

1 Kings 9:7–9 · BSB

then 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.

Psalm 41:13 · BSB

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

Isaiah 64:9–11 · BSB

Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!

Jeremiah 24:9 · BSB

I 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.

Jeremiah 29:18 · BSB

I 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.

Also

Jeremiah 32:32 Ezekiel 5:14

Jeremiah 32:32 · BSB

because 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.

Ezekiel 5:14 · BSB

I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15Now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and who made for Yourself a name renowned to this day, we have sinned; we have acted wickedly.

17So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.

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