9:1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the
seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the
Chaldeans;
9:2 In the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by
books the number of the years, concerning which the word of the
LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish
seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
9:3 And I set my face to the Lord GOD, to seek by prayer and
supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
9:4 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession,
and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the
covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep
his commandments;
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:
9:6 Neither have we hearkened to thy servants the prophets, who
spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers,
and to all the people of the land.
9:7 O Lord, righteousness [belongeth] to thee, but to us
confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, [that are]
near, and [that are] far off, through all the countries whither
thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have
trespassed against thee.
9:8 O Lord, to us [belongeth] confusion of face, to our kings,
to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned
against thee.
9:9 To the Lord our God [belong] mercies and forgivenesses,
though we have rebelled against him;
9:10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to
walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the
prophets.
9:11 And all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by
departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the
curse is poured upon us, and the oath that [is] written in the
law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against
him.
9:12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spoke against
us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us
a great evil: for under the whole heaven it hath not been done
as it hath been done upon Jerusalem.
9:13 As [it is] written in the law of Moses, all this evil is
come upon us: yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD
our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand
thy truth.
9:14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought
it upon us: for the LORD our God [is] righteous in all his
works which he doeth: for we have not obeyed his voice.
9:15 And now, O LORD our God, that hast brought thy people out
of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast obtained thee
renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
9:16 O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech
thee, let thy 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 [have
become] a reproach to all [that are] about us.
9:17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant,
and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy
sanctuary that is desolate, for the LORD'S sake.
9:18 O my God, incline thy ear, and hear; open thy eyes, and
behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy
name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for
our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
9:19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do;
defer not, for thy own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy
people are called by thy name.
9:20 And while 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;
9:21 Yes, while I [was] speaking in prayer, even the man
Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being
caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening
oblation.
9:22 And he informed [me], and talked with me, and said, O
Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and
understanding.
9:23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came
forth, and I am come to show [thee]; for thou [art] greatly
beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the
vision.
9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy
holy city to finish the transgression, and to make an end of
sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in
everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and
prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
9:25 Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth
of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the
Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and sixty and two
weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in
troublous times.
9:26 And after sixty and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off,
but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall
come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end
[shall be] with a flood, and to the end of the war desolations
are determined.
9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:
and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and
the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of
abominations, he shall make [it] desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the
desolate.
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