George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Daniel 9:9
Mercy. Thou art just, (verse 7.) and sovereignly merciful. He speaks in the name of all. Some had continued faithful; but the number was comparatively inconsiderable. (verse 11.)
Mercy. Thou art just, (verse 7.) and sovereignly merciful. He speaks in the name of all. Some had continued faithful; but the number was comparatively inconsiderable. (verse 11.)
Verse Daniel 9:9. _MERCIES AND FORGIVENESSES_] From God's _goodness_ flow God's _mercies_; from his _mercies, forgivenesses_....
TO THE LORD OUR GOD BELONG MERCIES AND FORGIVENESSES - Not only does righteousness belong to him in the sense that he has done right, and that he cannot be blamed for what he has done, but mercy and f...
CHAPTER 9 THE PROPHECY OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS _ 1. The time and occasion of Daniel's prayer (Daniel 9:1)_ 2. The prayer (Daniel 9:3) 3. The answer and the prophecy of the seventy weeks (Daniel 9:20)...
According to Charles, a later interpolation containing the confession of Daniel. This prayer was evidently written by a Palestinian Jew (see Daniel 9:7 and Daniel 9:16), and does not, therefore, maint...
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. MERCIES. compassions....
Daniel's prayer, consisting (1) of a confession of national transgression, and of the justice of God's punishment (Daniel 9:4), and (2) of a supplication for mercy and restoration (Daniel 9:15). The p...
_mercies_ The word often rendered -tender mercies" (Psalms 25:6; Psalms 40:11, &c.). The cognate verb and adj. are often rendered by _have compassion on_(e.g. Isaiah 49:15), and _full of compassion_(e...
DISCOURSE: 1138 HUMILIATION EXEMPLIFIED AND ENFORCED Daniel 9:3. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes; and I prayed unto the...
CHAPTER NINE III. THE PRAYER, THE PRINCE, AND PROSPERITYDaniel 9:1-27 a. REPENTANCE TEXT: Daniel 9:1-14 1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasureus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made...
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; TO THE LORD OUR GOD BELONG MERCIES - the plural intensifies the force: mercy manifold, and exhibited in c...
THE SEVENTY WEEKS In the first year of Darius the Mede, Daniel, studying the prophetical books, finds that Jeremiah has predicted that the desolation of Jerusalem will last for seventy years (Daniel 9...
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 9 V1 This is what happened in the first year that Darius ruled the country. He was the son of Xerxes and he came from the country call...
לַֽ אדֹנָ֣י אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ הָ רַחֲמִ֖ים וְ הַ
THE SEVENTY WEEKS THIS chapter is occupied with the prayer of Daniel, and with the famous vision of the seventy weeks which has led to such interminable controversies, but of which the interpretation...
INTERCESSION FOR A BELOVED PEOPLE Daniel 9:1-15 What a prayer is this! In many respects it is a model for us all. _It was based on the divine Word_. The fact that God had promised to restore the deso...
In the first year of the reign of Darius, Daniel, who was evidently not only a man of prayer, but a diligent student of the prophetic writings, became conscious that the seventy years of judgment on J...
The Lord had said by his servant Ezekiel, that for all his promised blessings, he would be enquired of by the house of Israel. Ezekiel 36:37. Here, therefore, Daniel set himself to pray, and that earn...
_MERCIES AND FORGIVENESSES_ ‘Do the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against Him.’ Daniel 9:9 And what is God? A Being Whose essence is love. Pity makes His bo...
Daniel here betakes himself to God’s mercy as to a sacred asylum; for it is not sufficient to acknowledge and confess our sins, unless we are supported by a confidence of our obtaining pardon from God...
Chapter 9 gives us a vision concerning the people and the holy city, consequent on Daniel's confession and intercession. It is, as has been remarked, in connection with the oppression of the western p...
TO THE LORD OUR GOD BELONG MERCIES AND FORGIVENESSES,.... Mercy is his nature, and what he delights in; it is abundant, and he is plenteous in it the fountain of mercy is with him, and numerous are th...
To the Lord our God [belong] mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; Ver. 9. _To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses._] Matchless mercies, pardons ready prepared...
_O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee_ Thou hast done us no wrong in any of the calamities which thou hast brought upon us; but hast shown thyself to be just and holy, nay, merciful and gracious,...
To the Lord, our God, belong mercies and forgivenesses, of which the repentant sinners feel the great need, THOUGH WE HAVE REBELLED AGAINST HIM, rather, "for we have rebelled," and the need of His for...
DANIEL'S CONFESSION AND PRAYER...
4-19 In every prayer we must make confession, not only of the sins we have been guilty of, but of our faith in God, and dependence upon him, our sorrow for sin, and our resolutions against it. It mus...
How did God show himself merciful, when he punished them so severely? ANSW. 1. Because it was less than their sin deserved, for it was rebellion. 2. Because their punishment was God's chastisement,...
Daniel 9:9 Lord H136 God H430 mercy H7356 forgiveness H5547 rebelled H4775 (H8804) To the Lord - Daniel 9
“To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him, nor have we obeyed the voice of YHWH our God, to walk in his laws which he set before us by his servants the prop...
Daniel 9:1. _In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by book...
Daniel 9:1. _In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by book...
CONTENTS: Vision of the seventy weeks. Daniel's prayer and confession. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Daniel, Jeremiah, Darius, Gabriel. CONCLUSION: God's Word is intended to encourage our prayers, and wh...
Daniel 9:1. _In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus._ He is also called Cyaxares, the son of Astyages. His father was called by the jews, Ahasuerus. See on Esther. Daniel 9:2. _I Daniel und...
_Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God._ ESTIMATING OUR OWN CHARACTER We take the words of the text in their more general reference. They are such as we ought all to use. Glory is asc...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 9:1 While reading the book of Jeremiah 1:1 and realizing that the “seventy years” (v. Daniel 9:2) are al
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XXX.—DANIEL’S PRAYER (Chap. Daniel 9:1) We come to what, in more than one respect, is among the most remarkable portions of Scripture. The chapter before us contains one of the mos...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 9:1 THE SEVENTY WEEKS. This is the chapter of Daniel which has occasioned most controversy. It was appealed to by Tertullian and the early Fathers as a demonstration of the correctn...
This time let's turn in our Bible to the book of Daniel, chapter 9. In the beginning of chapter 9, we have a very keen insight to this man Daniel. And we understand why God has declared of him that wa...
Daniel 9:5; Daniel 9:7; Ephesians 1:6; Ephesians 2:4; Exodus 34:6;...
DANIEL'S PRAYER Daniel 9:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Prayer should always hold a prominent place in the lives of all Christians. We are to study today the prayer of one of God's greatest servants. As a pr...