Daniel 9:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 14:20 : 20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.
  • Lam 1:7-8 : 7 Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction. 8 Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.
  • Lam 1:18 : 18 The 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 : 42 We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
  • Lam 5:16 : 16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
  • Dan 9:6-7 : 6 We 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. 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Dan 9:5-7
    3 verses
    90%

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

    6 We 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.

    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.

  • Ezra 9:6-7
    2 verses
    86%

    6 I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

    7 From 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.

  • Jer 3:24-25
    2 verses
    85%

    24 But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

    25 Let 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.

  • Dan 9:9
    84%

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

  • Jer 14:20
    84%

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

  • Dan 9:11-16
    6 verses
    80%

    11 And 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.

    12 And 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.

    13 As 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.

    14 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.

    15 And 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.

    16 O 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.

  • Neh 9:32-34
    3 verses
    77%

    32 And 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.

    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:

    34 And 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.

  • Lam 5:16
    77%

    16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

  • Isa 59:12
    77%

    12 For 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:

  • Jer 14:7
    76%

    7 Though 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.

  • Ezra 9:13
    76%

    13 And 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;

  • Ps 106:6
    76%

    6 We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

  • Lam 5:7
    76%

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

  • Ezra 9:10
    75%

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

  • Ps 44:15
    75%

    15 My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face;

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    75%

    6 For 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.

  • Ezra 9:15
    75%

    15 O 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 51:51
    75%

    51 We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.

  • Neh 1:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6 Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open, so that you may give ear to the prayer of your servant, which I make before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel, your servants, while I put before you the sins of the children of Israel, which we have done against you: truly, I and my father's people are sinners.

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

  • Ps 90:8
    74%

    8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.

  • Neh 9:36-37
    2 verses
    74%

    36 Now, 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:

    37 And 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.

  • Ps 79:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.

    9 Give us help, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; take us out of danger and give us forgiveness for our sins, because of your name.

  • 2 Chr 29:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 And 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.

    9 For 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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:33
    73%

    33 When your people Israel are overcome in war, because of their sin against you; if they are turned to you again, honouring your name, making prayers to you and requesting your grace in this house:

  • Isa 64:7
    73%

    7 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

  • Dan 9:18
    73%

    18 O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.

  • Ps 123:3
    73%

    3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

  • Isa 63:17
    73%

    17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

  • Ps 51:9
    73%

    9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

  • 1 Kgs 8:47
    73%

    47 And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

  • Lam 3:42
    73%

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

  • Lam 5:1
    73%

    1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

  • Neh 9:2
    73%

    2 And the seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations, publicly requesting forgiveness for their sins and the wrongdoing of their fathers.

  • Isa 64:9
    72%

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