9:1In the first year of Darius, son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who ruled over the kingdom of the Chaldeans, in year one of his reign, I, Daniel, understood in the books the number of the years about which the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that seventy years of the desolation of Jerusalem would be completed. 9:3And I set my face towards the Lord my God, to ask and to entreat with fasts, sackcloth, and ashes. 9:4And I prayed to the Lord my God, and I confessed, and said: "I beseech you, Lord God, great and terrible, keeping the covenant, and mercy to those who love you, and keep your commandments: we have sinned, we have done iniquity, we have acted impiously, and we have gone away: and we have turned aside from your commandments and judgements.
9:6We have not obeyed your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, to our princes, to our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 9:7To you, Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as it is today for the man of Judah, and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and for all Israel, for those who are near, and for those who are far off in all the lands to which you have driven them on account of their iniquities, by which they have sinned against you. 9:8Lord, to us confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, who have sinned.
9:9But to you, the Lord our God, mercy and forgiveness, because we have gone away from you, and have not heard the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his law, which he set for us through his servants the prophets. 9:11And all Israel have transgressed your law, and have turned aside so as not to hear your voice: and there has dripped upon us the curse and the execration which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. 9:12And he has established his words, which he spoke against us and against our princes who judged us, to bring upon us a great evil, such as never was under all heaven, according as it has been done in Jerusalem.
9:13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come upon us: and we have not entreated your face, Lord our God, that we might turn back from our iniquities, and consider your truth. 9:14And the Lord has watched over the evil, and has brought it upon us. 9:14Just is the Lord our God in all his works which he has done: for we have not heard his voice. 9:15And now, Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and made for yourself a name as at this day: we have sinned, we have done iniquity. 9:16Lord, according to all your justice, let your anger and your fury be turned away, I beseech you, from your city Jerusalem, and your holy mountain.
9:16For on account of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are a reproach to all around us. 9:17Now therefore hear, our God, the prayer of your servant, and his entreaties: and show your face upon your sanctuary, which is deserted, for your own sake. 9:18Incline, my God, your ear, and hear: open your eyes, and see our desolation, and the city upon which your name has been called: for not in our righteous deeds do we cast down our entreaties before your face, but in your many mercies. 9:19Hear, Lord; 9:19be appeased, Lord: attend and act: do not delay, for your own sake, my God, because your name has been called upon your city and upon your people."
9:20And while I was still speaking, and praying, and confessing my sins, and the sins of my people Israel, and casting down my entreaties in the sight of my God, on behalf of the holy mountain of my God: while I was still speaking in prayer, behold, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly, touched me at the time of the evening sacrifice. 9:22And he taught me, and spoke to me, and said: "Daniel, now I have come out to teach you, and that you might understand. 9:23From the beginning of your entreaties the word went out: and I have come to make it known to you, because you are a man of desires: you therefore attend to the word, and understand the vision.
9:24Seventy weeks have been shortened upon your people and upon your holy city, so that transgression may be completed, and sin may receive an end, and iniquity may be wiped out, and everlasting justice may be brought in, and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled, and the Holy of holies may be anointed. 9:25Know therefore, and attend: from the going out of the word that Jerusalem should be built again, right up to Christ the leader, there will be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and again the street will be built, and the walls, in the straitness of times. 9:26And after sixty-two weeks Christ will be slain: and the people who are going to deny him will not be his.
9:26And the city and the sanctuary a people with a leader who is to come will scatter: and its end will be devastation, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation. 9:27And he will confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the half of the week victim and sacrifice will fail: and there will be in the temple the abomination of desolation: and right up to the consummation and the end the desolation will continue."