Daniel 9:7

Thus righteousness belongs only to God: to the sinful people only confusion and shame. With Daniel 9:7 b, cf. Bar 1:15-17.

confusion of faces, &c. Cf. Ezra 9:7, -and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered … to confusion of face, as (it is) this day." Lit. -shame of face," as the same expression is rendered in 2 Chronicles 32:21; cf. Psalms 44:15, -shame of my face;" Jeremiah 7:19, -the shame of their own faces"; also Psalms 69:7. The meaning is the shame (i.e. disappointment) which is visible upon the face after a repulse, disaster, &c.

as(it is) this day as experience shews is now the case.

the men(lit. man, collectively) of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem A combination found otherwise only in Jer. (8 times), e.g. Jeremiah 4:4; Jeremiah 32:32, and 2 Kings 23:2 (2 Chronicles 34:30). An evident reminiscence of the language of Jer.: cf. -all the countries whither thou hast driven them" from Jeremiah 16:15; Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 23:8; Jeremiah 32:37.

that are near andthat are far off Jeremiah 25:26; cf. Isaiah 57:19.

their unfaithfulness wherein they have dealt unfaithfully against thee The idea of mâ-alis disloyalty rather than -trespass." The same phrase Leviticus 26:40; Ezekiel 17:20; Ezekiel 18:24; Ezekiel 39:26; 1 Chronicles 10:13. Both the subst. and the cognate verb are almost confined to the priestly sections of the Hexateuch, to Ezek., and the Chronicles: cf., however, the subst. in Ezra 9:2; Ezra 9:4; Ezra 10:6, and the verb in Ezra 10:2; Ezra 10:10; Nehemiah 1:8; Nehemiah 13:27.