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Page 18
Daniel Chapter 9
Daniel's confession and prayer: Gabriel informs him concerning the
seventy weeks to the coming of Christ.
9:1. In the first year of Darius, the son of Assuerus, of the seed of
the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans:
9:2. The first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by books the
number of the years, concerning which the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias, the prophet, that seventy years should be accomplished of the
desolation of Jerusalem.
9:3. And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to pray and make
supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
9:4. And I prayed to the Lord, my God, and I made my confession, and
said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the
covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.
9:5. We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly,
and have revolted: and we have gone aside from thy commandments, and thy
judgments.
9:6. We have not hearkened to thy servants, the prophets, that have
spoken in thy name to our kings, to our princes, to our fathers, and to
all the people of the land.
9:7. To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this
day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all
Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the
countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which
they have sinned against thee.
9:8. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our princes, and to
our fathers, that have sinned.
9:9. But to thee, the Lord our God, mercy and forgiveness, for we have
departed from thee:
9:10. And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, our God, to
walk in his law, which he set before us by his servants, the prophets.
9:11. And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away
from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is
written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us,
because we have sinned against him.
9:12. And he hath confirmed his words which he spoke against us, and
against our princes that judged us, that he would bring in upon us a
great evil, such as never was under all the heaven, according to that
which hath been done in Jerusalem.
9:13. As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon
us: and we entreated not thy face, O Lord our God, that we might turn
from our iniquities, and think on thy truth.
9:14. And the Lord hath watched upon the evil, and hath brought it upon
us: the Lord, our God, is just in all his works which he hath done: for
we have not hearkened to his voice.
9:15. And now, O Lord, our God, who hast brought forth thy people out of
the land of Egypt, with a strong hand, and hast made thee a name as at
this day: we have sinned, we have committed iniquity,
9:16. O Lord, against all thy justice: let thy wrath and thy indignation
be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city, Jerusalem, and from thy
holy mountain. For by reason of our sins, and the iniquities of our
fathers, Jerusalem, and thy people, are a reproach to all that are round
about us.
9:17. Now, therefore, O our God, hear the supplication of thy servant,
and his prayers: and shew thy face upon thy sanctuary, which is
desolate, for thy own sake.
9:18. Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear: open thy eyes, and see our
desolation, and the city upon which thy name is called: for it is not
for our justifications that we present our prayers before thy face, but
for the multitude of thy tender mercies.
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