| Chapter 9 |
| 1 | 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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2 | 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: |
| 4 | 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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5 | We 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 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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| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | 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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9 | To the Lord our God belong mercies and
forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; |
| 10 | 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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11 | 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. |
| 13 | 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. |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | 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. |
| 18 | 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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19 | 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. |
| 20 | And whiles 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; |
| 21 | Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even
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 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. |
| 23 | 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. |
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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. |
| 25 | 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. |
| 26 | 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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27 | 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. |
