Dan 9
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In the first year of Darius the son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned
over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,
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I Daniel understood by books the number of the years which was the word of the Lord
to the prophet Jeremias, even seventy years for the accomplishment of the desolation
of Jerusalem.
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And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek him diligently by prayer and supplications,
with fastings and sackcloth.
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And I prayed to the Lord my God, and confessed, and said, O Lord, the great and wonderful
God, keeping your covenant and your mercy to them that love you, and to them that
keep your commandments; we have sinned,
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we have done iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside
from your commandments and from your judgements:
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and we have not hearkened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to
our kings, and our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
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To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, an to us confusion of face, as at this day;
to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that
are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever you has scattered
them, for the Or, perfidious action sin which they committed.
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In you, O Lord, is our righteousness, and to us belongs confusion of faced, and to
our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, seeing that as we have sinned.
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To you, the Lord our God, belong compassions and forgivenesses, whereas we have departed
from you ;
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neither have we hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which
he set before us by the hands of his servants the prophets.
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Moreover all Israel have transgressed your law, and have Gr. turned aside from hearkening refused to hearken to your voice;
so the curse has come upon us, and the oath that
is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against
him.
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And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges
who judged us, by bringing upon us great evils, such as have not happened under the
whole heaven, according to what has happened in Jerusalem.
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As it is written in the law of Moses, all these evils have come upon us: yet we have
not besought the Lord our God, that we might turn away from our iniquities, and have
understanding in all your truth.
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The Lord also has watched, and brought Gr. them the evils upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous Gr. over in all his work
which he has executed, but we have not hearkened to his voice.
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And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty
hand, and made to yourself a name, as at this day; we have sinned, we have transgressed.
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O Lord, Compare Heb. and Ho 6:5 your mercy is over all: let, I pray you, your anger turn away, and your anger from
your city Jerusalem, even your holy mountain: for we have sinned, and because of our
iniquities, and those of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach
among all that are round about us.
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And now, O lord our God, hearken to the prayer of your servant, and his supplications,
and cause your face to shine on your desolate sanctuary, for your own sake, O Lord.
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Incline your ear, O my God, and hear; open your eyes and behold our desolation, and
that of your city on which your name is called: for we do not bring Gr. our supplication our pitiful case before you on the
ground of our righteousness, but on the ground
of your manifold compassions, O Lord.
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Hearken, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord; delay not, O my God, for your
own sake: for your name is called upon your city and upon your people.
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And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sins and the sins of
my people Israel, and bringing my pitiful case before the Lord my God concerning the
holy mountain;
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yea, while I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in
the vision at the beginning, came flying, and he touched me about the hour of the
evening sacrifice.
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And he instructed me, and spoke with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to
Gr. instruct you with impart to you understanding.
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At the beginning of your supplication the word came forth, and I am come to tell you;
for you are a man much beloved: therefore consider the matter, understand the vision.
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Seventy weeks have been determined upon your people, and upon the holy city, for sin
to be ended, and to seal up transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to
make atonement for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal
the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy.
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And you shall know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the
answer and for the building of Jerusalem until Christ the prince there shall be Or, sevens seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks;
and then the time shall return, and the street
shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.
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And after the sixty-two weeks, the Gr. anointing anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgement in him: and he
shall destroy
the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with
a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint the
city to desolations.
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And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and in the Gr. half midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering
shall be taken away: and on the
temple shall be the abomination of desolations; and at the end of time an end shall
be put to the desolation.