Daniel 9
Daniel's Prayer for His
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In the first year of Dari'us the son of
Ahasue'rus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the
realm of the Chalde'ans;
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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 Jer. 25.11 ; 29.10 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, 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 Lord's 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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The Prophecy
concerning the Seventy Weeks |
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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 the LORD my
God for the holy mountain of my God;
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yea, while I was speaking in
prayer, even the man Gabriel, Lk. 1.19, 26 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, 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 show thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and
consider the vision.
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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 of sins, 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, Dan. 11.31 ; 12.11 · Mt. 24.15 · Mk. 13.14 even until the consummation, and that determined shall be
poured upon the desolate.
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