Daniel 9:5
in Daniel 9we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
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ASV
we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances;
KJV
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
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This verse in Daniel 9
Commentary
8 notes on this verseVerse 5. "'We have sinned, we have behaved wickedly and impiously, and we have departed...'" He reviews the sins of the people as if he were personally guilty, on the ground of his being one of the people, just as we read the Apostle does also in his Epistle to the Romans.
This site's exposition
with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes
on Daniel 9:3-6
Daniel sets his face to seek the Lord by prayer, supplication, fasting, sackcloth and ashes, the full apparatus of national mourning, and the confession that follows runs in the same key as Ezra's in Ezra 9 and the Levites' in Nehemiah 9, we have sinned repeated until it becomes the prayer's own refrain. He counts himself inside the guilt he shares by nation rather than by deed, since the youth who refused the king's food in chapter one has nothing personal to confess, and the bench reads this identification as the same pattern Moses and Nehemiah both carry, a righteous man praying as one of the guilty people. The prayer names no merit of its own from the first word.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
Although Daniel has already received manifold grace due to his faith and innocence and although he has received quite a reputation before the Lord in regard to his virtues and praises, he strives with fasting to be worthy of God; he puts on sackcloth and ashes and makes confession with tears.
Then to bring out God's constant care for them and the people's great insensitivity, [Daniel] went on, "We have not hearkened to your servants the prophets, who kept speaking in your name to our kings, to our rulers, to our fathers and to the whole …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Two things aggravated their sins:-- 1. That they had violated the express laws God had given them by Moses: "We have departed from they precepts and from thy judgments, and have not conformed to them.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — odd-straight-quotes
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,.... Some think there is a gradation in these words; that they had committed some sins through error and ignorance; others through infirmity and obliquity, or in the perverseness of their spirits, and the crookedness of their ways; and others wilfully and in malice, in the wickedness of their hearts; and others were open acts of hostility against God, casting off his yoke, and refusing obedience to him, and obstinately persisting therein.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Erred in ignorance . . . sinned by infirmity . . . habitually and wilfully done wickedness . . . as open and obstinate rebels set ourselves against God.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
We have sinned - Though Daniel was alone, he spake in the name of the people in general - doubtless recounting the long series of crimes in the nation which had preceded the captivity, and which were the cause of the ruin of the city and temple. And have committed iniquity ... - These varied forms of expression are designed to give “intensity” to what he says. It is equivalent to saying that they had sinned in every way possible.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| חָטָ֥אנוּ | chatanu | we have sinned | H2398 → | 238 times |
| וְעָוִ֖ינוּ | veavinu | and we have committed iniquity | H5753 → | |
| הִרְשַׁ֣עְנוּ | vehirsha'nu | we have acted wickedly | H7561 → | 34 times |
| וּמָרָ֑דְנוּ | umaradenu | and we have rebelled | H4775 → | |
| וְס֥וֹר | vesor | and we have turned aside | H5493 → | 299 times |
| מִמִּצְוֹתֶ֖ךָ | mimitzvotekha | from commandments your | H4687 → | |
| וּמִמִּשְׁפָּטֶֽיךָ׃ | umimishpateikha | and from judgments your | H4941 → |
חָטָ֥אנוּwe have sinned
chatanuH2398 →238 times
וְעָוִ֖ינוּand we have committed iniquity
veavinuH5753 →
הִרְשַׁ֣עְנוּwe have acted wickedly
vehirsha'nuH7561 →34 times
וּמָרָ֑דְנוּand we have rebelled
umaradenuH4775 →
וְס֥וֹרand we have turned aside
vesorH5493 →299 times
מִמִּצְוֹתֶ֖ךָfrom commandments your
mimitzvotekhaH4687 →
וּמִמִּשְׁפָּטֶֽיךָ׃and from judgments your
umimishpateikhaH4941 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Hebrews 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 17:5
This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
- Jeremiah 7:24
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
- Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- Jeremiah 18:12
But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
- 1 Corinthians 10:12
So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.
- Jeremiah 17:5
Through
Malachi 3:7Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But…
it leads to
- Zechariah 1:3
So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
- Romans 10:21
But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
- James 4:8
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- Zechariah 1:3
Where this verse is studied
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About Daniel
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Cyprian, Treatise III. On the Lapsed 31; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER NINE; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 9:6.