Daniel 9:8 meaning and explanation
O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
Daniel 9:8, Berean Standard Bible
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Daniel is praying in the first year of Darius the Mede, confessing the sin that brought Jerusalem's ruin and the seventy years of exile he has just read about in Jeremiah. Speaking for his people, he names kings, leaders, and fathers, the ancestors whose failures shaped later generations.
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