Daniel: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 , * in the first year of his reign , I Daniel understood by the books that the number of the years , whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet , for the accomplishment of the desolations of Jerusalem , was seventy years . * And I set my face unto the Lord God , to seek by prayer and supplications , with fasting , and sackcloth , and ashes ; * and I prayed unto Jehovah my God , and made my confession , and said , Alas Lord ! the great and terrible �God , keeping covenant and loving-kindness with them that love him , and that keep his commandments : * we have sinned , and have committed iniquity , and have done wickedly , and have rebelled , even turning aside from thy commandments and from thine ordinances . * And we have not hearkened unto 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 . * Thine , O Lord , is the righteousness , but unto us confusion of face , 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 , in all the countries whither thou hast driven them , because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee . * O Lord , unto us is confusion of face , to our kings , to our princes , and to our fathers , because we have sinned against thee . * With the Lord our God are mercies and pardons , for we have rebelled against him ; * and we have not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah our God , to walk in his laws , which he set before us through his servants the prophets . * And all Israel have transgressed thy law , even turning aside so as not to listen unto thy voice . And the curse hath 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 . * And he hath performed his words , which he spoke against us , and against our judges that judged us , by bringing upon us a great evil ; so that there hath not been done under the whole heaven as hath been done upon Jerusalem . * As it is written in the law of Moses , all this evil is come upon us ; yet we besought not Jehovah our God , that we might turn from our iniquities , and understand thy truth . * And Jehovah hath watched over the evil , and brought it upon us ; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he hath done ; and we have not hearkened unto his voice . * -- And now , O Lord our God , who broughtest thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand , and hast made thee a name , as it is this day , -- we have sinned , we have done wickedly . * Lord , according to all thy righteousnesses , I beseech thee , let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem , thy holy mountain ; for because of our sins , and because of the iniquities of our fathers , Jerusalem and thy people [are become ] a reproach to all round about us . * And now , our God , hearken to the prayer of thy servant , and to his supplications , and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate , for the Lord 's sake . * Incline thine ear , O my God , and hear ; open thine eyes and behold our desolations , and the city that is called by thy name : for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses , but because of thy manifold mercies . * Lord , hear ! Lord , forgive ! Lord , hearken and do ! defer not , for thine own sake , O my God ! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name . * And whilst I was speaking , and praying , and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel , and presenting my supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God ; * whilst I was yet speaking in prayer , the man Gabriel , whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning , flying swiftly , touched me about the time of the evening oblation . * And he informed [me ], and talked with me , and said , Daniel , I am now come forth to make thee skilful of understanding . * At the beginning of thy supplications the word went forth , and I am come to declare [it ]; for thou art one greatly beloved . Therefore consider the word , and have understanding in the vision : * Seventy weeks are apportioned out upon thy people and upon thy holy city , to close the transgression , and to make an end of sins , and to make expiation for iniquity , and to bring in the righteousness of the ages , and to seal the vision and prophet , and to anoint the holy of holies . * Know therefore and understand : From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah , the Prince , are seven weeks , and sixty-two weeks . The street and the moat shall be built again , even in troublous times . * And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off , and shall have nothing ; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary ; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow , and unto the end , war , -- the desolations determined . * And he shall confirm a covenant with the many [for ] one week ; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease , and because of the protection of abominations [there shall be ] a desolator , even until that the consumption and what is determined shall be poured out upon the desolate .

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