DA-9:1  In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the

seed of the

Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

DA-9:2  In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by

books the number

of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the

prophet, that

he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of

Jerusalem.

DA-9:3  And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer

and

supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

DA-9:4  And I prayed unto 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;

DA-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:

DA-9:6  Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets,

 which spake

in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to

all the people

of the land.

DA-9:7  O Lord, righteousness [belongeth] unto thee, but unto us

confusion of

faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the

inhabitants of

Jerusalem, and unto 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.

DA-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.

DA-9:9  To the Lord our God [belong] mercies and forgivenesses,

though we have

rebelled against him;

DA-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.

DA-9:11  Yea, 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.

DA-9:12  And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against

us, and

against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great

evil: for under

the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon

Jerusalem.

DA-9:13  As [it is] written in the law of Moses, all this evil

is come upon

us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we

might turn

from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

DA-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 obeyed not his voice.

DA-9:15  And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people

forth out of

the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee

renown, as at this

day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

DA-9:16  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.

DA-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.

DA-9:18  O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine 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.

DA-9:19  O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do;

defer not, for

thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called

by thy name.

DA-9:20  And 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;

DA-9:21  Yea, whiles 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.

DA-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.

DA-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.

DA-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.

DA-9:25  Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going

forth of the

commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah

the Prince

[shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street

shall be

built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

DA-9:26  And after threescore 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 the end thereof [shall be] with a

flood, and unto

the end of the war desolations are determined.

DA-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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