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size="1">ORD</font> my God and confessed and said, Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments, <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Moreover, we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers and all the people of the land. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this dayto the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our kings, our princes and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>To the Lord our God <i>belong</i> compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him; <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>nor have we obeyed the voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Indeed all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Thus He has confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done <i>anything</i> like what was done to Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have not sought the favor of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God by turning from our iniquity and giving attention to Your truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has kept the calamity in store and brought it on us; for the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God is righteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have made a name for Yourself, as it is this daywe have sinned, we have been wicked. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people <i>have become</i> a reproach to all those around us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Gabriel Brings an Answer</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in <i>my</i> extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>He gave <i>me</i> instruction and talked with me and said, O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell <i>you,</i> for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Seventy Weeks and the Messiah</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy <i>place.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>So you are to know and discern <i>that</i> from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince <i>there will be</i> seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end <i>will come</i> with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined. <span class="reftext"><a href="/daniel/9-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations <i>will come</i> one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/daniel/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/daniel/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I set my face to the Lord my God, to pray and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/daniel/9.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/daniel/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/daniel/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/daniel/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/daniel/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_61_1915/daniel_a_pattern_for_pleaders.htm">Daniel: a Pattern for Pleaders</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"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."--Daniel 9:19. DANIEL was a man in very high position in life. It is true he was not living in his own native land, but, in the providence of God, he had been raised to great eminence under the dominion of the country in which he dwelt. He might, therefore, naturally have forgotten his poor kinsmen; many have done so. Alas! we have known some that have <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_61_1915/daniel_a_pattern_for_pleaders.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/smith/jeremiah/lecture_i_the_man_and.htm">The Man and the Book. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">In this and the following lectures I attempt an account and estimate of the Prophet Jeremiah, of his life and teaching, and of the Book which contains them--but especially of the man himself, his personality and his tempers (there were more than one), his religious experience and its achievements, with the various high styles of their expression; as well as his influence on the subsequent religion of his people. It has often been asserted that in Jeremiah's ministry more than in any other of the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/smith/jeremiah/lecture_i_the_man_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">George Adam Smith—</span><span class="citation2">Jeremiah</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_time_of_the.htm">Whether the Time of the Future Judgment is Unknown?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that the time of the future judgment is not unknown. For just as the holy Fathers looked forward to the first coming, so do we look forward to the second. But the holy Fathers knew the time of the first coming, as proved by the number of weeks mentioned in Daniel 9: wherefore the Jews are reproached for not knowing the time of Christ's coming (Lk. 12:56): "You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth, but how is it that you do not discern <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_time_of_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_great_controversy_between_christ_and_satan_/19_light_through_darkness.htm">Light through Darkness. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">[Illustration: Chapter header.] The work of God in the earth presents, from age to age, a striking similarity in every great reformation or religious movement. The principles of God's dealing with men are ever the same. The important movements of the present have their parallel in those of the past, and the experience of the church in former ages has lessons of great value for our own time. No truth is more clearly taught in the Bible than that God by His Holy Spirit especially directs His servants <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_great_controversy_between_christ_and_satan_/19_light_through_darkness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen G. White—</span><span class="citation2">The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/josephus/the_wars_of_the_jews_or_history_of_the_destruction_of_jerusalem/chapter_10_that_whereas_the.htm">That Whereas the City of Jerusalem had Been Five Times Taken Formerly, this was the Second Time of Its Desolation. A Brief Account of Its History. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. And thus was Jerusalem taken, in the second year of the reign of Vespasian, on the eighth day of the month Gorpeius [Elul]. It had been taken five [34] times before, though this was the second time of its desolation; for Shishak, the king of Egypt, and after him Antiochus, and after him Pompey, and after them Sosius and Herod, took the city, but still preserved it; but before all these, the king of Babylon conquered it, and made it desolate, one thousand four hundred and sixty-eight years and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/josephus/the_wars_of_the_jews_or_history_of_the_destruction_of_jerusalem/chapter_10_that_whereas_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Flavius Josephus—</span><span class="citation2">The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/on_prayer_and_the_contemplative_life/from_the_supplement_to_the.htm">From the Supplement to the Summa --Question Lxxii of the Prayers of the Saints who are in Heaven</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I. Are the Saints cognizant of our Prayers? II. Ought we to appeal to the Saints to intercede for us? III. Are the Saints' Prayers to God for us always heard? I Are the Saints cognizant of our Prayers? On those words of Job,[267] Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand, S. Gregory says: "This is not to be understood of the souls of the Saints, for they see from within the glory of Almighty God, it is in nowise credible that there should be anything without of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/on_prayer_and_the_contemplative_life/from_the_supplement_to_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">On Prayer and The Contemplative Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/taylor/separation_and_service/part_ii_the_blessing_of.htm">The Blessing of God. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">NUMB. VI. 22-27. We have already seen the grace of GOD making provision that His people, who had lost the privilege of priestly service, might draw near to Him by Nazarite separation and consecration. And not as the offence was the free gift: those who had forfeited the privilege of priestly service were the males only, but women and even children might be Nazarites; whosoever desired was free to come, and thus draw near to GOD. We now come to the concluding verses of Numb. vi, and see in them one <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/taylor/separation_and_service/part_ii_the_blessing_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">James Hudson Taylor—</span><span class="citation2">Separation and Service</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_great_controversy/chapter_23_what_is_the.htm">What is the Sanctuary?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The scripture which above all others had been both the foundation and the central pillar of the advent faith was the declaration: "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." Daniel 8:14. These had been familiar words to all believers in the Lord's soon coming. By the lips of thousands was this prophecy repeated as the watchword of their faith. All felt that upon the events therein foretold depended their brightest expectations and most cherished hopes. These <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_great_controversy/chapter_23_what_is_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Great Controversy</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_15_three_things_briefly.htm">Three Things Briefly to be Regarded in Christ --viz. His Offices of Prophet, King, and Priest. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. Among heretics and false Christians, Christ is found in name only; but by those who are truly and effectually called of God, he is acknowledged as a Prophet, King, and Priest. In regard to the Prophetical Office, the Redeemer of the Church is the same from whom believers under the Law hoped for the full light of understanding. 2. The unction of Christ, though it has respect chiefly to the Kingly Office, refers also to the Prophetical and Priestly Offices. The dignity, necessity, and use of this <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/the_institutes_of_the_christian_religion/chapter_15_three_things_briefly.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Calvin—</span><span class="citation2">The Institutes of the Christian Religion</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xxvii_general_account_of_jesus.htm">General Account of Jesus' Teaching. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">^A Matt. IV. 17; ^B Mark I. 14, 15; ^C Luke IV. 14, 15. ^a 17 From that time Jesus began to preach [The time here indicated is that of John the Baptist's imprisonment and Jesus' return to Galilee. This time marked a new period in the public ministry of Jesus. Hitherto he had taught, but he now began to preach. When the voice of his messenger, John, was silenced, the King became his own herald. Paul quoted the Greeks as saying that preaching was "foolishness," but following the example here set by <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xxvii_general_account_of_jesus.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. W. McGarvey—</span><span class="citation2">The Four-Fold Gospel</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/clarke/a_discourse_concerning_the_being_and_attributes_of_god/xiv_proposition_xiv_fifthly_as.htm">Fifthly, as this Revelation, to the Judgment of Right and Sober Reason,</a><br></span><span class="snippet">appears of itself highly credible and probable, and abundantly recommends itself in its native simplicity, merely by its own intrinsic goodness and excellency, to the practice of the most rational and considering men, who are desirous in all their actions to have satisfaction and comfort and good hope within themselves, from the conscience of what they do: So it is moreover positively and directly proved to be actually and immediately sent to us from God, by the many infallible signs and miracles <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/clarke/a_discourse_concerning_the_being_and_attributes_of_god/xiv_proposition_xiv_fifthly_as.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Samuel Clarke—</span><span class="citation2">A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/daniel/9-3.htm">Daniel 9:3 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/daniel/9-3.htm">Daniel 9:3 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/daniel/9-3.htm">Daniel 9:3 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/daniel/9-3.htm">Daniel 9:3 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/daniel/9-3.htm">Daniel 9:3 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/daniel/9-3.htm">Daniel 9:3 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/daniel/9-3.htm">Daniel 9:3 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../daniel/9-2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Daniel 9:2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Daniel 9:2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../daniel/9-4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Daniel 9:4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Daniel 9:4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/daniel/9-3.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>