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Dan. 9:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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:{HR}He bringeth low, and 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.{HR}In thee, O Jehovah, have I trusted;{HR}Let me not be ashamed forever;{HR}In thy righteousness deliver me. (Psa. 31:1)

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Psa. 71:2• ²Deliver me in thy righteousness, and set me free;{HR}Incline to me thine ear and save me. (Psa. 71:2)

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

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Mic. 6:4‑5• ⁴For I have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
⁵O my 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 so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to those who 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 the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)

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Dan. 9:20• ²⁰Whiles 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• ¹For the sons of Korah, a psalm, a song.{HR}His foundation [is] in the mountains of holiness.
²Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion{HR}More than all the tabernacles of Jacob.
³Glorious things [are] spoken of thee,{HR}O city of God. Selah. (Psa. 87:1‑3)

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Joel 3:17• ¹⁷So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her anymore (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 a 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 unfaithfullness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary to me, (Lev. 26:39‑40)

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Psa. 106:6‑48• ⁶We have sinned with our fathers,{HR}We have been perverse,{HR}We have done wickedly.
⁷Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders;{HR}They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies,{HR}But rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.
⁸Yet he saved them for his name's sake,{HR}To make known his power.
⁹And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;{HR}And he made them walk through the depths as the wilderness.
¹⁰And he saved them from the hater's hand,{HR}And redeemed them from the enemy's hand.
¹¹And waters covered their adversaries;{HR}Not one of them was left.
¹²Then (and) believed they his words,{HR}They sang his praise.
¹³They hasted, they forgot his works,{HR}They waited not for his counsel;
¹⁴And lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,{HR}And tempted God in the desert.
¹⁵And he gave them their request,{HR}And sent leanness into their soul.
¹⁶And they were envious of Moses in the camp,{HR}Of Aaron, saint of Jehovah.
¹⁷Earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,{HR}And covered Abiram's company.
¹⁸And a fire burned in their company,{HR}A flame consumed wicked ones.
¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb{HR}And bowed down to a molten image;
²⁰And changed their glory{HR}For the likeness of an ox eating grass.
²¹They forgot God their Saviour{HR}That did great things in Egypt,
²²Wondrous works in Ham's land,{HR}Terrible things at the Red Sea.
²³And he said he would destroy them,{HR}Had not Moses stood in the breach before him,{HR}To turn away his wrath from destroying.
²⁴And they despised the pleasant land,{HR}They believed not his word;
²⁵But they murmured in their tents;{HR}They did not hearken to Jehovah's voice.
²⁶And he lifted up his hand to them,{HR}To make them fall in the wilderness,
²⁷And to make their seed fall among the nations,{HR}And to scatter them in the lands.
²⁸And they joined themselves to Baal-Peor{HR}And ate sacrifices of dead (beings).
²⁹And they provoked him by their actions,{HR}And the plague broke out among them.
³⁰Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment,{HR}And the plague was stayed.
³¹And it was reckoned to him for righteousness{HR}To generation and generation for evermore.
³²And they angered him at the waters of Meribah,{HR}And it went ill with Moses on their account,
³³For they provoked his spirit,{HR}And he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
³⁴They destroyed not the peoples{HR}As (about which) Jehovah said to them;
³⁵But they mingled with the nations{HR}And learned their doings.
³⁶And they served their idols,{HR}Which became a snare unto them.
³⁷And they sacrificed their sons{HR}And their daughters to the demons;
³⁸And shed innocent blood—{HR}Blood of their sons and their daughters,{HR}Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan,{HR}And the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹And they were defiled in their doings,{HR}And went a whoring in their actions.
⁴⁰And Jehovah's anger was kindled at his people,{HR}And he abhorred his inheritance.
⁴¹And he gave them into nations' hand,{HR}And over them ruled their haters.
⁴²And their enemies oppressed them,{HR}And they were bowed down under their hand.
⁴³Many times he delivereth them,{HR}And they rebel in their counsel{HR}And were brought low by their iniquity.
⁴⁴But he regarded them in the distress{HR}When he heard them cry.
⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant,{HR}And repented according to the multitude of his mercies;
⁴⁶And he gave them compassion{HR}Before all that took them captives.
⁴⁷Save us, Jehovah our God,{HR}And gather us from among the nations{HR}To give thanks unto thy holy name,{HR}To glory in thy praise.
⁴⁸Blessed [be] Jehovah God of Israel{HR}From the everlasting and unto the everlasting!{HR}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 hath said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of these they shall kill and drive out by persecution,
⁵⁰that the blood of all the prophets, which hath been poured out from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
⁵¹from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the temple; yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation. (Luke 11:47‑51)

Jerusalem.

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{HR}From everlasting and to everlasting.{HR}Amen, and amen. (Psa. 41:13)

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Psa. 79:4• ⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbours,{HR}A mockery and derision to those round about us. (Psa. 79:4)

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

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Jer. 24:9• ⁹and I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, 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 persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: (Jer. 29:18)

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Lam. 1:8‑9• ⁸Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed:{HR}All that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness:{HR}Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
⁹Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end;{HR}Therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter.{HR}O 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;{HR}They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,{HR}Is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?
¹⁶All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee:{HR}They hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up:{HR}Certainly this is 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.

W. Kelly 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.

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)