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 meditated in the books , over the number of the years , whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet , that He would accomplish for the desolations of Jerusalem 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 the LORD my God , and made confession , and said : 'O Lord , the great and awful God , who keepest covenant and mercy with them that love Thee and keep Thy commandments , * we have sinned , and have dealt iniquitously , and have done wickedly , and have rebelled , and have turned aside from Thy commandments and from Thine ordinances ; * neither have we hearkened unto Thy servants the prophets , that spoke in Thy name to our kings , our princes , and our fathers , and to all the people of the land . * Unto Thee , O Lord , belongeth 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 , through all the countries whither Thou hast driven them , because they dealt treacherously with Thee . * O LORD , to us belongeth confusion of face , to our kings , to our princes , and to our fathers , because we have sinned against Thee . * To the Lord our God belong compassions and forgivenesses ; for we have rebelled against Him ; * neither have we hearkened to the voice of the LORD our God , to walk in His laws , which He set before us by His servants the prophets . * Yea , all Israel have transgressed Thy law , and have turned aside , so as not to hearken to Thy voice ; and so there hath been poured out upon us the curse and the oath that is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God ; for we have sinned against Him . * And He hath confirmed His word , which He spoke against us , and against our judges that judged us , by bringing upon us a great evil ; so that under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem . * As it is written in the Law of Moses , all this evil is come upon us ; yet have we not entreated the favour of the LORD our God , that we might turn from our iniquities , and have discernment in Thy truth . * And so the LORD hath watched over the evil , and brought it upon us ; for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He hath done , and we have not hearkened to His voice . * 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 . * O Lord , according to all Thy righteousness , let Thine anger and Thy fury , I pray Thee , 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 . * Now therefore , O our God , hearken unto 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 . * O my God , incline Thine ear , and hear ; open Thine eyes , and behold our desolations , and the city upon which Thy name is called ; for we do not present our supplications before Thee because of our righteousness , but because of Thy great compassions . * O Lord , hear , O Lord , forgive , O Lord , attend and do , defer not ; for Thine own sake , O my God , because Thy name is called upon Thy city and Thy people .' * And while 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 ; * 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 , approached close to me about the time of the evening offering . * And he made me to understand , and talked with me , and said : 'O Daniel , I am now come forth to make thee skilful of understanding . * At the beginning of thy supplications a word went forth , and I am come to declare it ; for thou art greatly beloved ; therefore look into the word , and understand the vision . * Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city , to finish the transgression , and to make an end of sin , and to forgive iniquity , and to bring in everlasting righteousness , and to seal vision and prophet , and to anoint the most holy place . * Know therefore and discern , that from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto one anointed , a prince , shall be seven weeks ; and for threescore and two weeks , it shall be built again , with broad place and moat , but in troublous times . * And after the threescore and two weeks shall an anointed one be cut off , and be no more ; and the people of a prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary ; but his end shall be with a flood ; and unto the end of the war desolations are determined . * And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week ; and for half of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease ; and upon the wing of detestable things shall be that which causeth appalment ; and that until the extermination wholly determined be poured out upon that which causeth appalment .'

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