Daniel

Every sentence 8 uses

Each sentence in Balanced English, with the word marked. The verse link opens it in the reader.

1. Daniel 9:2

   In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, came to understand from the scriptures the number of years that, according to the word of the LORD to the prophet Jeremiah, must pass before the desolation of Jerusalem would come to an end: seventy years.

2. Daniel 9:4

   I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, saying, “Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant and his loyal love with those who love him and keep his commandments,

3. Daniel 9:8

   LORD, open shame belongs to us, to our kings, our officials and our ancestors, because we have sinned against you.

4. Daniel 9:10

   We have not obeyed the LORD our God or lived by the instructions he set before us through his servants the prophets.

5. Daniel 9:13

   All this disaster has come on us, as the law of Moses says it would. Yet we have not pleaded for the favor of the LORD our God by turning away from our sins and paying attention to your truth.

6. Daniel 9:14

   So the LORD kept the disaster ready and brought it on us, for the LORD our God is righteous in everything he does, yet we have not obeyed him.

7. Daniel 9:20

   While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and bringing my plea before the LORD my God on behalf of the holy mountain of my God,