Daniel 9:5 meaning and explanation
we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
Daniel 9:5, Berean Standard Bible
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Daniel is praying in Babylon, in the first year of Darius the Mede, having read Jeremiah's prophecy that Jerusalem's desolation would last seventy years. He identifies himself with his people and confesses their guilt in the first person plural, piling up verbs of wrongdoing rather than excusing or explaining it.
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