Daniel 9:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 9:33 : 33 But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:
  • Dan 9:7 : 7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.
  • Jer 44:27 : 27 See, I am watching over them for evil and not for good: all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be wasted by the sword and by need of food till there is an end of them.
  • Ps 51:14 : 14 Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.
  • Jer 31:28 : 28 And it will come about that, as I have been watching over them for the purpose of uprooting and smashing down and overturning and sending destruction and causing trouble; so I will be watching over them for the purpose of building up and planting, says the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Dan 9:5-13
    9 verses
    86%

    5We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:

    6We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land.

    7O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

    8O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.

    9With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;

    10And 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.

    11And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.

    12And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.

    13As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.

  • Neh 9:32-37
    6 verses
    84%

    32And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

    33But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:

    34And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

    35For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.

    36Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

    37And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

  • Dan 9:15-16
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    83%

    15And now, O Lord our God, who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and made a great name for yourself even to this day; we are sinners, we have done evil.

    16O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.

  • Jer 14:19-20
    2 verses
    81%

    19Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

    20We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

  • Ezra 9:13-15
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    80%

    13And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

    14Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

    15O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

  • Jer 40:3
    79%

    3*** and the Lord has made it come, and has done as he said; because of your sin against the Lord in not giving ear to his voice; and that is why this thing has come on you.

  • Jer 16:10
    78%

    10And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?

  • Ps 44:17
    78%

    17All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

  • Jer 51:10
    77%

    10The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of the Lord our God.

  • Neh 1:7
    77%

    7We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.

  • Jer 14:7
    77%

    7Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.

  • Isa 59:12
    77%

    12For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    77%

    6For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

  • 2 Chr 29:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

    9For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

  • Deut 6:25
    76%

    25And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.

  • Jer 3:25
    76%

    25Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

  • Jer 9:13
    76%

    13And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

  • Jer 42:6
    76%

    6If it is good or if it is evil, we will be guided by the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you; so that it may be well for us when we give ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

  • Ezra 9:7
    76%

    7From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.

  • Isa 42:24
    75%

    24Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.

  • Ezra 9:10
    75%

    10And now, O our God, what are we to say after this? for we have not kept your laws,

  • 1 Chr 15:13
    75%

    13For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.

  • Lam 1:18
    75%

    18The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.

  • Lam 3:42
    75%

    42We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.

  • Lam 5:7-8
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    7Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

    8Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

  • Ps 106:6
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    6We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

  • 1 Kgs 9:9
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    9And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord their God, who took their fathers out of the land of Egypt; they took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why the Lord has sent all this evil on them.

  • Isa 64:9
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    9Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

  • Isa 64:5
    74%

    5For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

  • Mal 2:17
    74%

    17You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?