Daniel 9

1In 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—Cross-references: Dan 1:21 · Dan 5:31 · Dan 6:28 · Dan 11:1

2in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:21 · Ezra 1:1 · Ps 74:3 · Ps 79:1 · Ps 119:24 · Ps 119:99 · +22 more

3I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.Cross-references: Ezra 8:21 · Ezra 9:5 · Ezra 10:6 · Neh 1:4 · Neh 9:1 · Esth 4:1 · +17 more

4I 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,Cross-references: Ex 20:6 · Ex 34:6 · Lev 26:40 · Num 14:18 · Deut 5:10 · Deut 7:9 · +19 more

5we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:47 · 2Chr 6:37 · Ezra 9:6 · Neh 1:6 · Neh 9:33 · Ps 18:21 · +14 more

6We 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:13 · 2Chr 33:10 · 2Chr 36:15 · Ezra 9:7 · Neh 9:32 · Neh 9:34 · +19 more

7“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is 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.Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Deut 4:27 · Deut 32:4 · 2Ki 17:6 · Ezra 9:6 · Ezra 9:13 · +19 more

8Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.Cross-references: Jer 14:20 · Lam 1:7 · Lam 1:18 · Lam 3:42 · Lam 5:16 · Dan 9:6

9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him.Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · Num 14:18 · Neh 9:17 · Neh 9:26 · Neh 9:31 · Ps 62:12 · +18 more

10We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:13 · 2Ki 18:12 · Ezra 9:10 · Neh 9:13 · Dan 9:6 · Heb 1:1

11Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not 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.Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Deut 27:15 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 29:20 · Deut 30:17 · Deut 31:17 · +6 more

12He 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.Cross-references: 1Ki 3:9 · Job 12:17 · Ps 2:10 · Ps 82:2 · Ps 148:11 · Prov 8:16 · +17 more

13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 29:4 · Job 36:13 · Ps 85:4 · Ps 119:18 · +22 more

14Therefore 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.Cross-references: Neh 9:33 · Ps 51:14 · Jer 31:28 · Jer 44:27 · Dan 9:7

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.Cross-references: Ex 6:1 · Ex 6:6 · Ex 9:16 · Ex 14:1 · Ex 14:18 · Ex 32:11 · +12 more

16Lord, 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.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Lev 26:39 · 1Sam 2:7 · 1Ki 9:7 · Neh 9:8 · Ps 31:1 · +21 more

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.Cross-references: Num 6:23 · Ps 4:6 · Ps 67:1 · Ps 80:1 · Ps 80:3 · Ps 80:7 · +7 more

18My God, turn your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.Cross-references: Ex 3:7 · 1Ki 8:29 · 2Ki 19:16 · Ps 17:6 · Ps 80:14 · Isa 37:17 · +12 more

19Lord, 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.”Cross-references: Num 14:19 · 1Ki 8:30 · 2Chr 6:21 · 2Chr 6:25 · 2Chr 6:39 · Ps 44:23 · +23 more

20While 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—Cross-references: Ps 32:5 · Ps 137:5 · Ps 145:18 · Eccl 7:20 · Isa 6:5 · Isa 56:7 · +14 more

21yes, 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.Cross-references: Ex 29:39 · 1Ki 18:36 · Ezra 9:4 · Ps 103:20 · Ps 104:4 · Isa 6:2 · +16 more

22He instructed me and talked with me, and said, “Daniel, I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.Cross-references: Dan 8:16 · Dan 9:24 · Dan 10:21 · Zech 1:9 · Zech 1:14 · Zech 6:4 · +1 more

23At 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.Cross-references: Song 7:10 · Ezek 24:16 · Ezek 26:12 · Dan 10:11 · Dan 10:19 · Matt 24:15 · +1 more

24“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.Cross-references: Lev 8:15 · Lev 25:8 · Num 14:34 · 2Chr 29:24 · Ps 2:6 · Ps 45:7 · +38 more

25“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 15:25 · Ezra 4:24 · Ezra 6:1 · Ezra 7:1 · Ezra 7:8 · Ezra 7:11 · +23 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

26After 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.Cross-references: Ps 22:15 · Isa 8:7 · Isa 53:8 · Jer 46:7 · Dan 9:27 · Dan 11:10 · +27 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

27He 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 who makes desolate; and even to the decreed full end, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Deut 4:26 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 29:18 · Deut 30:17 · Deut 31:28 · +31 more