Dan 9
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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,
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in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the
years whereof the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing
of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
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And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting
and sackcloth and ashes.
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And I prayed to YHWH my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and
dreadful God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep
his commandments,
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we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,
even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;
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neither have we hearkened to your servants the prophets, that spoke in your name to
our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
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O Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, 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 where you have driven them,
because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
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O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our
fathers, because we have sinned against you.
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To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;
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neither have we obeyed the voice of YHWH our God, to walk in his laws, which he set
before us by his servants the prophets.
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Yea, all Israel have transgressed your law, even turning aside, that they should not
obey your voice: therefore has the curse been poured out upon us, and the oath that
is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.
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And he has 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 has not
been done as has been done upon Jerusalem.
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As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet have we not
entreated the favor of YHWH our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and
have discernment in your truth.
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Therefore has YHWH watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for YHWH our God
is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
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And now, O Lord our God, that have brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt
with a mighty hand, and have gotten you renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we
have done wickedly.
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O Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and your anger, I pray
you, be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our
sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become
a reproach to all that are round about us.
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Now therefore, O our God, hearken to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplications,
and cause your face to shine upon your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord`s
sake.
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O my God, incline your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and behold our desolations,
and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our supplications
before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies` sake.
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O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for your own sake,
O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.
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And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people
Israel, and presenting my supplication before YHWH my God for the holy mountain of
my God;
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yea, while I was speaking in prayer, 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.
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And he instructed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth
to give you wisdom and understanding.
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At the beginning of your supplications the commandment went forth, and I am come to
tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand
the vision.
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Seventy weeks are decreed upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish transgression,
and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring
in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the
most holy.
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Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore
and to build Jerusalem to the anointed one, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and
threescore and two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troublous
times.
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And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall
have nothing: 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 even to the end
shall be war; desolations are determined.
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And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the
week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of
abominations [shall come] one that makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that
determined, shall [anger] be poured out upon the desolate.