Daniel 9

1 In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—

2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.

3 So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

4 And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,

5 we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.

6 We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.

7 To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.

8 O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.

9 To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him

10 and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

11 All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.

12 You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

13 Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.

14 Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.

15 Now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and who made for Yourself a name renowned to this day, we have sinned; we have acted wickedly.

16 O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.

17 So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.

18 Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

19 O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”

20 While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—

21 while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.

22 He instructed me and spoke with me, saying: “O Daniel, I have come now to give you insight and understanding.

23 At the beginning of your petitions, an answer went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly precious. So consider the message and understand the vision:

24 Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

25 Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

27 And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”

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;

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.

3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

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;

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:

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.

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.

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 To the Lord our God [belong] mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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;

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.

22 And he informed [me], and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.

23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew [thee]; for thou [art] greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the tribe of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,

2 In the same first year of his reign I Daniel noted in the books the number of the years, which the LORD spake unto Jeremiah the prophet, that Jerusalem should lie desolate seventy years.

3 And I turned unto GOD the LORD, to pray and to supplicate, with fasting, in sackcloth and ashes.

4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, confessing, saying, O Lord, thou greater and terrible God, which keepest covenant and grace unto them that love thee, and keepest thy commandments:

5 we have sinned, we have done wrong, we have been ungodly, we have gone astray; we have departed from thy commandments and thy statutes.

6 We hearkened not unto thy servants the prophets, which preached in thy name unto our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

7 Thou, O LORD, art righteous: but we are ashamed, as now we pray thee, to them of Judah, and to them of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, both to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all countries, whither thou hast cast us out for their iniquity which they have committed against thee.

8 Yea, O LORD, we, our kings, our princes, and our fathers, are ashamed, because we have sinned against thee.

9 But thine, O LORD our God, is mercy and forgiveness. For we have become apostates

10 And obeyed not the voice of the LORD our God, that we should walk in his law, which he set before us by his servants the prophets,

11 But all Israel transgressed thy law, and turned aside, because they obeyed not thy voice. Therefore the curse and the oath, which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, is upon us, because we have sinned against him.

12 And he hath kept his words which he spake against us, and against our judges that should judge us, in that he hath brought upon us such great calamities, that there was none like them in all heaven, as there was upon Jerusalem.

13 As it is written in the law of Moses, so all this great evil is come upon us. Neither prayed we before the LORD our God, that we might repent of sins, and receive thy truth.

14 Therefore the LORD also hath been valiant in this calamity, and hath suffered it to pass upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all his works that he doeth: for we have not obeyed his voice.

15 And now, O LORD our God, who hast brought thy people up out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast made thee a name, as it is now: for we have sinned, and, alas, have been ungodly.

16 O LORD, for all thy righteousness' sake turn away thy wrath and thy anger from thy city Jerusalem, and from thy holy mountain. For our sins, and our fathers' iniquities, Jerusalem and thy people are reproached of all that are round about us.

17 And now, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications; and look graciously upon thy sanctuary, which is desolate, for the LORD'S sake.

18 Incline thine ears, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold how we are distressed, and the city that is called by thy name. For we lie before thee with our prayer, not upon our righteousness, but upon thy great mercy.

19 O LORD, hear; O LORD, be merciful; O LORD, take heed, and do it, and consume not for thine own sake, O my God. For thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

20 While I yet spake and prayed, and confessed my sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and lay with my prayer before the LORD my God, about the holy mountain of my God,

21 And as I was thus speaking in my prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I saw before in the vision, flew therefore, and touched me about the time of the evening sacrifice.

22 And he told me, and spake unto me, saying, Daniel, now am I gone forth to tell thee.

23 For when thou beganst to pray, this command went forth, and I come to tell thee: for thou art good and worthy. Take heed therefore that thou understand the vision.

24 Seventy weeks are appointed for thy people, and for thy holy city: and the transgression shall be repented of, and sin shall be sealed, and iniquity shall be atoned for, and everlasting righteousness shall be brought, and visions and prophecies shall be sealed, and the most holy place shall be anointed.

25 Know therefore, and mark, that from the time when the commandment shall go forth, that Jerusalem should be rebuilt until Christ the Prince, seven weeks and threescore and two weeks, the streets and the walls shall be rebuilt, though it be in a small time.

26 And after the threescore and two weeks Christ shall be cut off, and shall be nothing. And a people of the prince shall come, and shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and it shall be cut off as by a flood: and it shall be desolate until the end of the controversy.

27 And he shall strengthen the covenant of many for a week. And in the midst of the week the sacrifice and the meat offering shall cease. And by the wings shall stand abominations of desolation: and it is determined that desolation shall overflow unto the end.