Daniel 9:10

Contemporary English Version

Daniel Prays for the People Daniel wrote: Some years later, Darius the Mede, who was the son of Xerxes, had become king of Babylonia. And during his first year as king, I found out from studying the writings of the prophets that the Lord had said to Jeremiah, "Jerusalem will lie in ruins for seventy years." Then, to show my sorrow, I went without eating and dressed in sackcloth and sat in ashes. I confessed my sins and earnestly prayed to the Lord my God: Our Lord, you are a great and fearsome God, and you faithfully keep your agreement with those who love and obey you. But we have sinned terribly by rebelling against you and rejecting your laws and teachings. We have ignored the message your servants the prophets spoke to our kings, our leaders, our ancestors, and everyone else. Everything you do is right, our Lord. But still we suffer public disgrace because we have been unfaithful and have sinned against you. This includes all of us, both far and near—the people of Judah, Jerusalem, and Israel, as well as those you dragged away to foreign lands, and even our kings, our officials, and our ancestors. Lord God, you are merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against you and rejected your teachings that came to us from your servants the prophets.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and have not obeyed the Lord our God by following his instructions that he set before us through his servants the prophets.

Hebrew Names Version
neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

King James Version
Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

English Standard Version
and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

New American Standard Bible
and we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

New Century Version
We have not obeyed the Lord our God or the teachings he gave us through his servants, the prophets.

Amplified Bible
and we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in His laws which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For we haue not obeyed the voyce of the Lord our God, to walke in his lawes, which he had laide before vs by the ministerie of his seruants the Prophets.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
nor have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

Berean Standard Bible
and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

Complete Jewish Bible
We didn't listen to the voice of Adonai our God, so that we could live by his laws, which he presented to us through his servants the prophets.

Darby Translation
and we have not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us through his servants the prophets.

Easy-to-Read Version
We have not obeyed the Lord our God. He used his servants, the prophets, and gave us laws, but we have not obeyed his laws.

George Lamsa Translation
Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk according to his laws which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

Good News Translation
We did not listen to you, O Lord our God, when you told us to live according to the laws which you gave us through your servants the prophets.

Lexham English Bible
and we have not listened to the voice of Yahweh our God, by following his law which he placed before us by the hand of his servants the prophets.

Literal Translation
We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws which he set before us by His servants the prophets.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and haue not obeyed the voyce of the LORDE oure God, to walke in his lawes, which he layed before vs by his seruauntes the prophetes:

American Standard Version
neither have we obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

Bible in Basic English
And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
neither have we hearkened to the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets.

King James Version (1611)
Neither haue we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walke in his Lawes which he set before vs, by his seruants the Prophets.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And we haue not obeyed the voyce of the Lorde our God, to walke in his lawes which he layde before vs, by the hande of his seruauntes the prophetes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
neither have we hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by the hands of his servants the prophets.

English Revised Version
neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

World English Bible
neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and herden not the vois of oure Lord God, that we schulden go in the lawe of hym, whiche he settide to vs bi hise seruauntis, profetis.

Update Bible Version
neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his slaves the prophets.

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

New English Translation
We have not obeyed the Lord our God by living according to his laws that he set before us through his servants the prophets.

New King James Version
We have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets.

New Living Translation
We have not obeyed the Lord our God, for we have not followed the instructions he gave us through his servants the prophets.

New Life Bible
We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by following the Laws He gave us through His servants who spoke for Him.

New Revised Standard
and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by following his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and have not hearkened unto the voice of Yahweh our God, - to walk in his instructions which he set before us, through means of his servants the prophets;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, our God, to walk in his law, which he set before us by his servants, the prophets.

Revised Standard Version
and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by following his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

Young's Literal Translation
and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in His laws, that He hath set before us by the hand of His servants the prophets;

Contextual Overview

⁵ But we have sinned terribly by rebelling against you and rejecting your laws and teachings. ⁶ We have ignored the message your servants the prophets spoke to our kings, our leaders, our ancestors, and everyone else. ⁷ Everything you do is right, our Lord. But still we suffer public disgrace because we have been unfaithful and have sinned against you. This includes all of us, both far and near—the people of Judah, Jerusalem, and Israel, as well as those you dragged away to foreign lands, ⁸ and even our kings, our officials, and our ancestors. ⁹ Lord God, you are merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against you ¹⁰Daniel Prays for the People Daniel wrote: Some years later, Darius the Mede, who was the son of Xerxes, had become king of Babylonia. And during his first year as king, I found out from studying the writings of the prophets that the Lord had said to Jeremiah, "Jerusalem will lie in ruins for seventy years." Then, to show my sorrow, I went without eating and dressed in sackcloth and sat in ashes. I confessed my sins and earnestly prayed to the Lord my God: Our Lord, you are a great and fearsome God, and you faithfully keep your agreement with those who love and obey you. But we have sinned terribly by rebelling against you and rejecting your laws and teachings. We have ignored the message your servants the prophets spoke to our kings, our leaders, our ancestors, and everyone else. Everything you do is right, our Lord. But still we suffer public disgrace because we have been unfaithful and have sinned against you. This includes all of us, both far and near—the people of Judah, Jerusalem, and Israel, as well as those you dragged away to foreign lands, and even our kings, our officials, and our ancestors. Lord God, you are merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against you and rejected your teachings that came to us from your servants the prophets. ¹¹ Everyone in Israel has stubbornly refused to obey your laws, and so those curses written by your servant Moses have fallen upon us. ¹² You warned us and our leaders that Jerusalem would suffer the worst disaster in human history, and you did exactly as you had threatened. ¹³ We have not escaped any of the terrible curses written by Moses, and yet we have refused to beg you for mercy and to remind ourselves of how faithful you have always been. ¹⁴ And when you finally punished us with this horrible disaster, that was also the right thing to do, because we deserved it so much.

Bible Verse Review
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which: Daniel 9:6, 2 Kings 17:13, 2 Kings 18:12, Ezra 9:10, Ezra 9:11, Nehemiah 9:13-17, Hebrews 1:1

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 10:31 - walk 2 Kings 21:9 - they hearkened 2 Kings 22:13 - because our fathers Nehemiah 9:27 - thou deliveredst Isaiah 24:5 - because Jeremiah 3:25 - and have not Jeremiah 16:11 - Because Jeremiah 32:23 - but Ezekiel 11:12 - General Ezekiel 14:13 - when Daniel 9:14 - for Mark 12:3 - and sent

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
God did not forget about Noah and the animals with him in the boat. So God made a wind blow, and the water started going down.

Genesis 9:1
God said to Noah and his sons: I am giving you my blessing. Have a lot of children and grandchildren, so people will live everywhere on this earth.

Genesis 9:5
I created humans to be like me, and I will punish any animal or person that takes a human life. If an animal kills someone, that animal must die. And if a person takes the life of another, that person must be put to death.

Genesis 9:15
I will remember my promise to you and to all other living creatures. Never again will I let floodwaters destroy all life.

Genesis 9:16
When I see the rainbow in the sky, I will always remember the promise that I have made to every living creature.

Psalms 145:9
You are good to everyone, and you take care of all your creation.

Jonah 4:11
In that city of Nineveh there are more than a hundred twenty thousand people who cannot tell right from wrong, and many cattle are also there. Don't you think I should be concerned about that big city?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God,.... Speaking in the law, and by his prophets; for what was spoken there, and by them, should have been considered, not as the word of man, but as the word of God, and should have been attended to and obeyed; for despising that and them was interpreted as despising the Lord, and refusing to hearken to him, and obey his voice; which was a sin highly provoking to him, and resented by him:

to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets; by Moses and others; for it seems to include the system of laws which were delivered by Moses, and were many; and the doctrines of the prophets, which were explications and enforcements of them: and these the Lord set before them by both, as a rule to walk by, and a path to walk in; and not to do this was very sinful in them, and greatly displeasing to him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord - The commands of God as made known by the prophets, Daniel 9:6.