Daniel 9:5

we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Daniel addresses God directly in a corporate prayer of confession, situated between his acknowledgment of divine covenant faithfulness and his admission that Israel ignored the prophetic warnings.

The words — חָטָ֥אנוּ (chata nu) = "we have sinned" and וּ/מָרָ֑דְנוּ (u/marad nu) = "and we have rebelled" form a paired confession of deliberate transgression against divine authority.

The thread — The pattern of turning from statutes and refusing obedience recurs in Malachi 3:7, Daniel 9:11, and Daniel 9:15, where covenant violation is consistently linked to national judgment.

Why it lands — The text demands a precise accounting of collective guilt before any appeal for mercy, requiring the reader to identify specific disobedience rather than offering vague remorse.

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The Hebrew words

חָטָ֥אנוּcha.Ta.nuwe have sinned וְעָוִ֖ינוּve./'a.Vi.nuand/ we have committed iniquity הִרְשַׁ֣עְנוּve.hir.sha'.nuwe have acted wickedly וּמָרָ֑דְנוּu./ma.Ra.de.nuand/ we have rebelled וְס֥וֹרve./Sorand/ we have turned aside מִמִּצְוֹתֶ֖ךָmi./mitz.vo.Te./khafrom/ commandments/ your וּמִמִּשְׁפָּטֶֽיךָ׃u./mi./mish.pa.Tei./khaand/ from/ judgments/ your

King James Version

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

Cross-references

Malachi 3:7 Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
Daniel 9:11 All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.
Daniel 9:15 Now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and who made for Yourself a name renowned to this day, we have sinned; we have acted wickedly.
Psalms 106:6 We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
Psalms 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Isaiah 64:5 You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
Jeremiah 14:7 Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
Lamentations 1:20 See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
Hebrews 3:12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
Nehemiah 1:6 let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.