Daniel 9

1 In the first year of ^aDarius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes,¹ which² was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

2 In the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood ^bby books³ the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to ^cJeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the ^ddesolations of Jerusalem.

3 ¶ And ^eI set my face⁴ unto the Lord God, to^g seek by prayer and supplications, ^hwith fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and ⁱmade my confession, and said, O ^jLord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments:

5 We^k have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts, and from thy judgments:

6 Neither ^lhave 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.

7 O Lord, ⁿrighteousness ⁵belongeth unto thee, but unto us ^oconfusion of faces, as at this day: to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, ^pthat are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither^q thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

8 O Lord, ^rto us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

9 To the Lord our God ^sbelong mercies and forgivenesses, ^tthough we have rebelled against him;

10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in ^uhis laws which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

11 Yea, ^vall Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore ^xthe 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.⁶

12 And ^yhe 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 ^zhath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

13 As ^ait is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the⁷ LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

14 Therefore hath the LORD ^bwatched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for ^cthe LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

15 And now, O Lord our God, ^dthat hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee ^erenown,⁸ as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

16 ¶ O Lord, according to all ^gthy righteousness,⁹ I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away ^hfrom thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; because for ⁱour sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become ^ja reproach to all that are about us.

17 Now, therefore, O our God, ^khear 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.¹

18 O my God, ^lincline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy ²name: ⁿfor we do not present³ our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

19 O Lord, ^ohear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken, and do; ^pdefer not, for thine own sake, O my God; for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

20 ¶ And ^qwhiles I was speaking, and praying, ^rand confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God ^sfor the holy mountain of my God;⁴

21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man ^tGabriel,⁵ whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to ^ufly swiftly,⁶ touched^v me ^xabout the time of the evening oblation.

22 And he ^yinformed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.

23 At^z the beginning of thy supplications the commandment⁸ came forth, and I am come to show thee; for thou art greatly beloved:⁹ therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.

24 Seventy^a weeks¹ are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish² the transgression, and to make an end of³ sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and ^bto bring in everlasting righteousness, and to ^cseal up the vision and prophecy,⁴ and to ^danoint ^ethe Most Holy.

25 Know,^g therefore, and understand, that from ^hthe going forth of the commandment to restore and to build⁵ Jerusalem, unto ⁱthe Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again,⁶ and the wall,⁷ even in troublous times.⁸

26 And after threescore and two weeks ^lshall Messiah be cut off, but not⁹ for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come ⁿshall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a ^oflood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.¹

27 And he shall ^pconfirm the² covenant with many for one week: and in the midst³ of the week ^rhe shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of ^sabominations⁴ he shall make it desolate, even until ^tthe consummation, and ^uthat determined shall be poured upon the ⁵desolate.⁶