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O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

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1 Sam. 2:7• ⁷Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich, he bringeth low, also he lifteth up: (1 Sam. 2:7)

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Neh. 9:8• ⁸and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites,--to give it to his seed; and thou hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous. (Neh. 9:8)

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Psa. 31:1• ¹To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. In thee, Jehovah, do I trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. (Psa. 31:1)

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Psa. 71:2• ²Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me; incline thine ear unto me, and save me. (Psa. 71:2)

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Psa. 143:1• ¹A Psalm of David. Jehovah, hear my prayer; give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness. (Psa. 143:1)

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Mic. 6:4‑5• ⁴For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
⁵My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the righteousness of Jehovah. (Mic. 6:4‑5)

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2 Thess. 1:6• ⁶if at least it is a righteous thing with God to render tribulation to those that trouble you, (2 Thess. 1:6)

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1 John 1:9• ⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)

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Dan. 9:20• ²⁰And whilst I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God; (Dan. 9:20)

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Psa. 87:1‑3• ¹Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song. His foundation is in the mountains of holiness.
²Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion more than all the habitations of Jacob.
³Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. (Psa. 87:1‑3)

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Joel 3:17• ¹⁷And ye shall know that I, Jehovah, am your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; and Jerusalem shall be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more. (Joel 3:17)

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Zech. 8:3• ³Thus saith Jehovah: I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called, The city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, The holy mountain. (Zech. 8:3)

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Ex. 20:5• ⁵thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous *God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth generation of them that hate me, (Ex. 20:5)

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Lev. 26:39‑40• ³⁹And they that remain of you shall waste away through their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also through the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them.
⁴⁰And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me, (Lev. 26:39‑40)

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Psa. 106:6‑48• ⁶We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
⁷Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.
⁸Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.
⁹And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.
¹⁰And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
¹¹And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.
¹²Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
¹³They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:
¹⁴And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted *God in the desert.
¹⁵Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
¹⁶And they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.
¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;
¹⁸And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.
¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;
²⁰And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
²¹They forgot *God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,
²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
²³And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them.
²⁴And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,
²⁵But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.
²⁶And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;
²⁷And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
²⁸And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;
²⁹And they provoked him to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.
³⁰Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;
³¹And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.
³²And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;
³³For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
³⁴They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;
³⁵But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;
³⁶And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:
³⁷And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
³⁸And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.
⁴⁰Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;
⁴¹And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:
⁴²And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
⁴³Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.
⁴⁴But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;
⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;
⁴⁶And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.
⁴⁷Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
⁴⁸Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah! (Psa. 106:6‑48)

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Matt. 23:31‑32• ³¹So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:
³²and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers. (Matt. 23:31‑32)

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Luke 11:47‑51• ⁴⁷Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.
⁴⁸Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your fathers; for *they* killed them, and *ye* build their sepulchres.
⁴⁹For this reason also the wisdom of God has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of these shall they kill and drive out by persecution,
⁵⁰that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
⁵¹from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation. (Luke 11:47‑51)

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1 Kings 9:7‑9• ⁷then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and the house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples;
⁸and this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished at, and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
⁹And they shall say, Because they forsook Jehovah their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have attached themselves to other gods, and have worshipped them and served them; therefore has Jehovah brought upon them all this evil. (1 Kings 9:7‑9)

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Psa. 41:13• ¹³Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, from eternity to eternity! Amen, and Amen. (Psa. 41:13)

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Psa. 79:4• ⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us. (Psa. 79:4)

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Isa. 64:9‑11• ⁹Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
¹⁰Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
¹¹Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire, and all our precious things are laid waste. (Isa. 64:9‑11)

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Jer. 24:9• ⁹And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither unto all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them; (Jer. 24:9)

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Jer. 29:18• ¹⁸And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will give them over to be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I will drive them: (Jer. 29:18)

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Lam. 1:8‑9• ⁸Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore is she removed as an impurity: all that honoured her despise her because they have seen her nakedness; and she sigheth, and turneth backward.
⁹Her impurity was in her skirts, she remembered not her latter end; and she came down wonderfully: she hath no comforter. Jehovah, behold my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself. (Lam. 1:8‑9)

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Lam. 2:15‑16• ¹⁵All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city which they called, The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
¹⁶All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up; this is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen it. (Lam. 2:15‑16)

• The prophet was entitled to plead the Lord’s righteousness, for Jehovah had put His NAME in the sanctuary built by Solomon. (“Daniel 9” by E. Dennett)

• It is very touching also to see the way in which Daniel uses the term, “Thy people.” In fact God had written Lo-ammi (“not My people”) on Israel, but faith would re-establish the link, and hence it refuses the term of reproach. (“Daniel 9” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Lord, according to all thy righteousnesses, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; for because of our sins, and because of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all round about us.