Daniel 9:4

Prayer God's faithfulness God's love Obedience

² In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

³ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

⁵ We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

⁶ 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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,
KJV: And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
WEB: I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
ASV: And I prayed unto Jehovah my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments,
DARBY: and I prayed unto Jehovah my God, and made my confession, and said, Alas Lord! the great and terrible God, keeping covenant and loving-kindness with them that love him, and that keep his commandments:
BLB: And I prayed to YHWH my God, and I made confession and said: “O Lord God, the great and fearsome One, the One keeping the covenant and the loving devotion to those loving Him and those keeping His commandments.

ÅB: Og jeg ba til Herren min Gud og bekjente og sa: Akk, Herre, du store og forferdelige Gud, som holder din pakt og bevarer miskunnhet mot dem som elsker deg og holder dine bud!
OTB: Jeg ba til Herren min Gud og bekjente: “Å Herre, den store og fryktinngytende Gud, som holder sin pakt av kjærlighet med dem som elsker Ham og holder Hans bud,
B1930: Og jeg bad til Herren min Gud og bekjente og sa: Akk, Herre, du store og forferdelige Gud, som holder din pakt og bevarer miskunnhet mot dem som elsker dig og holder dine bud!

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Original text and word study

Cross references

Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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Exodus 20:6
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
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Deuteronomy 5:10
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
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Exodus 34:6–7
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
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Daniel 9:5–12
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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Jeremiah 32:17–19
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
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2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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Nehemiah 9:32
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
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