The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Portions 09
1 In the first year of Darius the son of
Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes,
who was made king over the realm of the
Chaldeans,
2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel,
understood by the books thenumber ofthe
years about which Yahweh’s† word came
to Jeremiah the prophet, for the
accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem,
even seventy years.
3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek
by prayer and petitions, with fasting in
sackcloth and ashes.
4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made
confession, and said, “Oh, Lord, the
great and dreadful God, who keeps
covenant and loving kindness with
those who love him and keep his commandments,
5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely,
and have done wickedly, and have
rebelled, even turning aside from your
precepts and from your ordinances.
6 We haven’t listened to your servants
the prophets, who spoke in your name to
our kings, our princes, and our fathers,
and to all the people of the land.
7 “Lord, righteousness belongs to you,
butto us confusion offace, as itis today—
to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who
are near, and who are far off, through
all the countries where you have driven
them, because of their trespass that they
have trespassed against you.
8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face,
to our kings, to our princes, and to our
fathers, because we have sinned against
you.
9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and
forgiveness; for we have rebelled
against him.
10 We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our
God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he
set before us by his servants the prophets.
11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed
your law, turning aside, that they wouldn’t
obey your voice. “Therefore the curse and the oath
written in the law of Moses the servant
of God has been poured out on us; for we
have sinned against him.
12 He has confirmed his words, which
he spoke against us, and against our judges
who judged us, by bringing on us a great
evil; for under the whole sky, such has not
been done as has been done to Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the law of Moses,
all this evil has come on us. Yet we have
not entreatedthe favor ofYahwehour God,
that we should turn from our iniquities
and have discernment in your truth.
14 Therefore Yahweh has watched
over the evil, and brought it on us; for
Yahweh our God is righteous in all his
works which he does, and we have not
obeyed his voice.
15 “Now, Lord our God, who has
brought your people out of the land of
Egypt with a mighty hand, and have
gotten yourself renown, as it is today, we
have sinned. We have done wickedly.
16 Lord, according to all your righteousness,
please let your anger and your
wrath be turned away from your city
Jerusalem, your holy mountain, because
for our sins, and for the iniquities of our
fathers, Jerusalem and your people have
become a reproach to all who are around Us.
17 “Now therefore, our God, listen to
the prayer of your servant, and to his
petitions, and cause your face to shine
on your sanctuary that is desolate, for
the Lord’s sake.
18 My God, turn your ear and hear.
Open your eyes and see our desolations
and the city which is called by your name;
for we don’t present our petitions before
you for our righteousness, but for your
great mercies’ sake.
19 Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord,
listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own
sake, my God, because your city and your
people are called by your name.”
20 While I was speaking, praying, and
confessing my sin and the sin of my people
Israel, and presenting my supplication
before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God—
21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer,
the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the
vision at the beginning, being caused to fly
swiftly, touched me about the time of the
evening offering.
22 He instructed me and talked with me,
and said, “Daniel, I have now come to give
you wisdom and understanding.
23 At the beginning of your petitions the
commandment went out and I have come
to tell you, for you are greatly beloved.
Therefore consider the matter and understand the vision.
24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your
people and on your holy city, to finish
disobedience, to put an end to sin, to make
reconciliation for iniquity,to bring in everlasting
righteousness, to seal up vision and
prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
25 “Know therefore and discern that
from the going out of the commandment
to restore and to build Jerusalem to the
Anointed One,‡ the prince, will be seven
weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built
again with street and moat, even in troubled times.
26 After the sixty-two weeks the
Anointed One§ will be cut off and will
have nothing. The people of the prince
who come will destroy the city and the
sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and
war will be even to the end. Desolations
are determined.
27 He will make a firm covenant with
many for one week. In the middle of the
week he will cause the sacrifice and the
offering to cease. On the wing of abominations
will come one whomakesdesolate.
Even to the full end that is decreed, wrath
will be poured out on the desolate.”