Daniel:9
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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 ;
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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 .
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And I set my face unto the Lord God ,
to seek by prayer and supplications ,
with fasting ,
and sackcloth ,
and ashes :
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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 ;
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We have sinned ,
and have committed iniquity ,
and have done wickedly ,
and have rebelled ,
even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments :
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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 .
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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 Yisra #
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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 .
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O Lord ,
to us belongeth confusion of face ,
to our kings ,
to our princes ,
and to our fathers ,
because we have sinned against thee .
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To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses ,
though we have rebelled against him ;
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 Lords sake .
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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 .
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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 .
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And whiles I was speaking ,
and praying ,
and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel Yisra #
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and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God ;
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Yea ,
whiles I was speaking in prayer ,
even the man Gabriel Gabriy #
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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 informed me ,
and talked with me ,
and said ,
O Daniel Daniye #
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I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding .
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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 mar #
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Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city ,
to finish the transgression ,
and to make an end (
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of sins chatta #
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .