Daniel 9:8 “O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fath…”

Daniel 9:8

O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

World English Bible

Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

American Standard Version

O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

O Lord, vnto vs apperteineth open shame, to our Kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we haue sinned against thee.

Darby Translation

O Lord, unto us is confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

Young's Literal Translation

'O Lord, to us [is] the shame of face, to our kings, to our heads, and to our fathers, in that we have sinned against Thee.

Bible in Basic English

O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.

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Cross references

“to us”

Daniel 9:6 Daniel 9:7

Daniel 9:6 · BSB

We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.

Daniel 9:7 · BSB

To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfait…

“because”

Jeremiah 14:20 Lamentations 1:18 Lamentations 3:42 Lamentations 5:16 Lamentations 1:7 Lamentations 1:8

Jeremiah 14:20 · BSB

We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

Lamentations 1:18 · BSB

The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 3:42 · BSB

“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

Lamentations 5:16 · BSB

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Lamentations 1:7 · BSB

In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her do…

Lamentations 1:8 · BSB

Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

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

In context

7To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.

9To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him

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