Daniel 9:5
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
Study Note
Study Note
Daniel's great confessional prayer opens with comprehensive self-indictment: 'we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts.' The quintet of sin-terms (sinned, committed iniquity, done wickedly, rebelled, departed) exhibits the comprehensive formulaic quality of ancient liturgical confession, leaving no aspect of transgression unacknowledged. Leviticus 26's covenant curses provide the theological backdrop: exile is the consequence stipulated in the covenant for exactly this pattern of departure, making Daniel's prayer an acknowledgment that the exile was just, not arbitrary. Nehemiah 9 and Ezra 9 employ nearly identical structures of communal confession, showing this was a developed genre of post-exilic liturgy.
Other Translations
we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances;
we have sinned, and done perversely, and done wickedly, and rebelled, to turn aside from Thy commands, and from Thy judgments:
We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:
Cross References
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For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.