When we look at these verses, then we see how often he speaks about their sins and wrongdoings. In verses 4-15, Daniel time and again confesses their sinfulness before God. Daniel says in verse 13, “As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.” But, after God punished them, the people of Israel did not turn back to God. He realizes that the whole situation of Israel in the Babylonian Empire was because of their sins.
When he reads Jeremiah’s prophecy of seventy years of God’s wrath, he also reads the reason for it, namely all the terrible sins which Judah had committed against the LORD. First, Daniel himself is reminded of the sins of Israel. This was the promise which God had given to his people and we would expect Daniel to start reminding God of that promise. Now it was also the time that the exile of Judah would come to an end, according to this prophesy. For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.ĭaniel witnessed the destruction of the Babylonian Empire less than a year before. I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste. Through Jeremiah God prophesied that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. Daniel was reading the scriptures in the book of the prophet Jeremiah. It is the first year of the new king, Darius, the first year after the Babylonian Empire was destroyed. The reason for Daniel’s prayer is explained in the first verses of chapter 9. In verses 4 through 14, the only thing Daniel does is confess his sinfulness and the sinfulness of his people, and the righteousness of God in punishing them. In Daniel 9, Daniel prays and speaks about his sins. Daniel remained faithful to the commandments of God, and is one of the major examples in the Bible of righteousness and perseverance in faith. In the following chapters they never disowned God, neither before the mighty king nor in times that they had to face death. Already from the very first page of the book we learn that he and his three friends did not want to take part in the lifestyle of the Babylonians.
He was faithful to God in all aspects of his life.
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