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O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

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1 Sam. 2:7• ⁷The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. (1 Sam. 2:7)

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Neh. 9:8• ⁸And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous: (Neh. 9:8)

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Psa. 31:1• ¹<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. (Psa. 31:1)

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Psa. 71:2• ²Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. (Psa. 71:2)

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Psa. 143:1• ¹<<A Psalm of David.>> Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. (Psa. 143:1)

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Mic. 6:4‑5• ⁴For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
⁵O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord. (Mic. 6:4‑5)

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2 Thess. 1:6• ⁶Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; (2 Thess. 1:6)

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1 John 1:9• ⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)

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Dan. 9:20• ²⁰And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God; (Dan. 9:20)

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Psa. 87:1‑3• ¹<<A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah.>> His foundation is in the holy mountains.
²The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
³Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. (Psa. 87:1‑3)

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Joel 3:17• ¹⁷So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. (Joel 3:17)

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Zech. 8:3• ³Thus saith the Lord; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain. (Zech. 8:3)

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Ex. 20:5• ⁵Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; (Ex. 20:5)

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Lev. 26:39‑40• ³⁹And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
⁴⁰If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; (Lev. 26:39‑40)

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Psa. 106:6‑48• ⁶We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
⁷Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
⁸Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
⁹He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
¹⁰And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
¹¹And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
¹²Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
¹³They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
¹⁴But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
¹⁵And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
¹⁶They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.
¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
¹⁸And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
²⁰Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
²¹They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
²³Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
²⁴Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
²⁵But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.
²⁶Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
²⁷To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
²⁸They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
²⁹Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
³⁰Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
³¹And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
³²They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
³³Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
³⁴They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them:
³⁵But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
³⁶And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
³⁷Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
³⁸And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
⁴⁰Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
⁴¹And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.
⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
⁴³Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
⁴⁴Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
⁴⁶He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
⁴⁷Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
⁴⁸Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the Lord. (Psa. 106:6‑48)

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Matt. 23:31‑32• ³¹Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
³²Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. (Matt. 23:31‑32)

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Luke 11:47‑51• ⁴⁷Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
⁴⁸Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
⁴⁹Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
⁵⁰That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
⁵¹From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. (Luke 11:47‑51)

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1 Kings 9:7‑9• ⁷Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
⁸And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
⁹And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil. (1 Kings 9:7‑9)

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Psa. 41:13• ¹³Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. (Psa. 41:13)

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Psa. 79:4• ⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. (Psa. 79:4)

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Isa. 64:9‑11• ⁹Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
¹⁰Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
¹¹Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. (Isa. 64:9‑11)

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Jer. 24:9• ⁹And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. (Jer. 24:9)

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Jer. 29:18• ¹⁸And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: (Jer. 29:18)

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Lam. 1:8‑9• ⁸Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
⁹Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. (Lam. 1:8‑9)

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Lam. 2:15‑16• ¹⁵All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
¹⁶All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. (Lam. 2:15‑16)

• The prophet was entitled to plead the Lord’s righteousness, for Jehovah had put His NAME in the sanctuary built by Solomon. (“Daniel 9” by E. Dennett)

• It is very touching also to see the way in which Daniel uses the term, “Thy people.” In fact God had written Lo-ammi (“not My people”) on Israel, but faith would re-establish the link, and hence it refuses the term of reproach. (“Daniel 9” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Lord, according to all thy righteousnesses, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; for because of our sins, and because of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all round about us.