Daniel 9:13

Asit is written, &c. Cf. Deuteronomy 28:15 b, Deuteronomy 30:1.

yet have we not intreated the favour of (R.V.)] lit. made the face sweet(i.e. gracious), the idiom used with reference to a human object in Job 11:19; Psalms 45:12; Proverbs 19:6, and frequently with reference to God, as Exodus 32:11; 1 Samuel 13:12; Jeremiah 26:19, al.Cf. Bar 2:8.

understand thy truth better (R.V.), have discernment in thy truth, -truth" being used in the objective sense which it has in Daniel 8:12, and the meaning being (Keil, Prince) to acquire insight into God's revealed will, and to think and act in accordance with it. The words might, however, also be rendered (R.V. marg.) deal wisely (viz. in amending our ways) through [332] thy truth(v. Lengerke, Behrm.), i.e. through Thy revealed word. The verb has the former meaning (understand, discern) in Daniel 9:25; and the latter in Daniel 11:33; Daniel 11:35; Daniel 12:3; Daniel 12:10.

[332] There is a similar ambiguity in the verb and accompanying prep. in Psalms 101:2.