Daniel 9:8
O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
Daniel 9:8 in other translations
| BSB | O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You. |
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| WEB | Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. |
| ASV | O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. |
| YLT | ‘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. |
| DARBY | O Lord, unto us is confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. |
| BBE | O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you. |
| Webster | O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. |
What does Daniel 9:8 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Daniel 9:4-19
In every prayer we must make confession, not only of the sins we have been guilty of, but of our faith in God, and dependence upon him, our sorrow for sin, and our resolutions against it. It must be our confession, the language of our convictions. Here is Daniel's humble, serious, devout address to God; in which he gives glory to him as a God to be feared, and as a God to be trusted. We should, in prayer, look both…
Daniel 9:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Daniel 9:8
- Daniel 9:6-7
Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
- Lamentations 1:18
The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
- Lamentations 3:42
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
- Lamentations 1:7-8
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
- Jeremiah 14:20
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
- Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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- Daniel 9:7
O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
- Daniel 9:8
O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
- Daniel 9:9
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
Daniel 9:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Oh Jehová, nuestra es la confusión de rostro, de nuestros reyes, de nuestros príncipes, y de nuestros padres; porque contra ti pecamos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Seigneur, à nous la confusion de face, à nos rois, à nos princes, et à nos pères, parce que nous avons péché contre toi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jehova! unser ist die Beschämung des Angesichts, unserer Könige, unserer Fürsten und unserer Väter, weil wir gegen dich gesündigt haben. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Domine, nobis confusio faciei, regibus nostris, principibus nostris, et patribus nostris, qui peccaverunt. |