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align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">O Lord, to us <i>belongeth</i> confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/daniel/9.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/daniel/9.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/daniel/9.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/daniel/9.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/daniel/9.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/daniel/9.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/daniel/9.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/daniel/9.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/daniel/9.htm" title="Expositor's 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<a href="/commentaries/wes/daniel/9.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/daniel/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(8) <span class= "bld">Confusion of face.</span>—Repeated from <a href="/daniel/9-7.htm" title="O LORD, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.">Daniel 9:7</a>, so as to bring into stronger contrast the mercy of God (<a href="/daniel/9-9.htm" title="To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;">Daniel 9:9</a>) with the righteousness” mentioned in <a href="/daniel/9-7.htm" title="O LORD, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.">Daniel 9:7</a>. St. Jerome well remarks, “<span class= "ital">Post sententiam judicantis provocat eum ad clementiam.”</span> The absolute mercy and forgiveness of God is implied by the article in this verse, just as His absolute righteousness is in <a href="/daniel/9-7.htm" title="O LORD, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.">Daniel 9:7</a>.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/daniel/9.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>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 at God's greatness and his goodness, his majesty and mercy. Here is a penitent confession of sin, the cause of the troubles the people for so many years groaned under. All who would find mercy must thus confess their sins. Here is a self-abasing acknowledgment of the righteousness of God; and it is evermore the way of true penitents thus to justify God. Afflictions are sent to bring men to turn from their sins, and to understand God's truth. Here is a believing appeal to the mercy of God. It is a comfort that God has been always ready to pardon sin. It is encouraging to recollect that mercies belong to God, as it is convincing and humbling to recollect that righteousness belongs to him. There are abundant mercies in God, not only forgiveness, but forgivenesses. Here are pleaded the reproach God's people was under, and the ruins God's sanctuary was in. Sin is a reproach to any people, especially to God's people. The desolations of the sanctuary are grief to all the saints. Here is an earnest request to God to restore the poor captive Jews to their former enjoyments. O Lord, hearken and do. Not hearken and speak only, but hearken and do; do that for us which none else can do; and defer not. Here are several pleas and arguments to enforce the petitions. Do it for the Lord Christ's sake; Christ is the Lord of all. And for his sake God causes his face to shine upon sinners when they repent, and turn to him. In all our prayers this must be our plea, we must make mention of his righteousness, even of his only. The humble, fervent, believing earnestness of this prayer should ever be followed by us.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/daniel/9.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>O Lord, to us belongeth confusion ... - To all of us; to the whole people, high and low, rich and poor, the rulers and the ruled. All had been partakers of the guilt; all were involved in the calamities consequent on the guilt. As all had sinned, the judgments had come upon all, and it was proper that the confession should be made in the name of all. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/daniel/9.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>7. confusion of faces, as at this day—Shame at our guilt, betrayed in our countenance, is what belongs to us; as our punishment "at this day" attests.<p>near, and … far off—the chastisement, however varied, some Jews not being cast off so far from Jerusalem as others, all alike were sharers in the guilt.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/daniel/9.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> Here the prophet, after he had arraigned himself and his people upon their guilt, passeth judgment; for in this case every true penitent sits in judgment, and proceeds judicially, that is, solemnly and impartially; for he judgeth for God, and proceeds according to God’s law, and conscience is witness; and this God takes notice of, and takes well, for it prevents his judging of us, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-31.htm" title="For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.">1 Corinthians 11:31</a></span>, and is a true sign of true repentance: see <span class="bld"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-11.htm" title="For behold this selfsame thing, that you sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it worked in you, yes, what clearing of yourselves, yes, what indignation, yes, what fear, yes, what vehement desire, yes, what zeal, yes, what revenge! In all things you have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.">2 Corinthians 7:11</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/daniel/9.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face,.... Which is repeated, to show how much the mind of the prophet was affected with it, and to fix a sense of it in the minds of others; as well as to suggest that he wanted words fully to express that shame that everyone ought to take to themselves; and also in order to introduce what follows, and that to observe that all ranks and degrees of men were concerned in it: <p>to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee; these had each of them sinned against the Lord, by not hearkening to his prophets, who reproved them for their sins, and warned them of their danger, <a href="/daniel/9-6.htm">Daniel 9:6</a> and therefore had reason to be ashamed of them before him; as well as to observe the low estate in which the royal family, princes, elders, and people in Babylon, were, being exposed to shame and reproach before all the world. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/daniel/9.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">O Lord, to us <i>belongeth</i> confusion of face, to our <span class="cverse3">{g}</span> kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.</span><p>(g) He does not excuse the kings because of their authority, but prays chiefly for them as the chief occasions of these great plagues.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/daniel/9.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">8</span>. <span class="ital">to our kings</span>, &c.] Cf. <a href="/jeremiah/44-17.htm" title="But we will certainly do whatever thing goes forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.">Jeremiah 44:17</a> (quoted on <span class="ital"><a href="/daniel/9-6.htm" title="Neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, which spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.">Daniel 9:6</a></span>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Daniel 9:8<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/daniel/9.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>In this verse Daniel repeats the thoughts of <a href="/daniel/9-7.htm">Daniel 9:7</a> in order to place the sin and shame of the people opposite to the divine compassion, and then to pass from confession of sin to supplication for the sin-forgiving grace of the covenant-keeping God.<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/daniel/9-8.htm">Daniel 9:8 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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