Daniel 9 · דניאל

In the first year of Daryavesh the son of Aĥashverosh, of the seed of Maday, who was made king over the realm of the Kasdians;

in the first year of his reign I Daniyyel considered in the books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Yirmeya the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Yerushalayim.

And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

and I prayed to the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping covenant and troth to those who love him, and to those who keep his commandments;

we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, and have turned aside from Thy precepts and from Thy judgments:

for we have not hearkened to Thy servants the prophets, who spoke in Thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

O Lord, righteousness belongs to Thee, but to us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Yehuda, and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and to all Yisra᾽el, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries whither Thou hast driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against Thee.

O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against Thee.

To the Lord our God belongs mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him;

for we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to follow his Torot, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

Yea, all Yisra᾽el have transgressed Thy Tora, and have turned aside, so as not to obey Thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the Tora of Moshe the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

And he has confirmed his word, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven there has not been done the like of what has been done against Yerushalayim,

as it is written in the Tora of Moshe, all this evil is come upon us: yet we did not offer our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand Thy truth.

Therefore the Lord has watched over the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he has done: for we did not obey his voice.

And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought Thy people out of the land of Miżrayim with a mighty hand, and hast gotten Thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

O Lord, according to all Thy righteousness, I pray Thee, let Thy anger and Thy fury be turned away from Thy city of Yerushalayim Thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Yerushalayim and Thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

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.

O my God, incline Thy ear, and hear; open Thy eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by Thy name: for we do not present our supplications before Thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of Thy great mercies.

O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and act; delay not, for Thy own sake, O my God: for Thy city and Thy people are called by Thy name.

And whilst I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Yisra᾽el, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;

whilst I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gavri᾽el, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, approached close to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.

And he made me understand, and talked with me, and said, O Daniyyel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.

At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment went out, and I am come to declare it; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore look into the word, and consider the vision.

Seventy weeks are decreed concerning thy people and concerning thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end to sins, and to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the most holy place.

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Yerushalayim until an anointed prince, shall be seven weeks: then for sixty two weeks it shall be built again, with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.

And after sixty two weeks shall an anointed one be cut off, and none will be left to him: and the people of a prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and his end shall be with a flood, and to the end of the war desolations are decreed.

And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week: and during half of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator.