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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Daniel 9 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/daniel/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/daniel/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Daniel 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../daniel/8.htm" title="Daniel 8">◄</a> Daniel 9 <a href="../daniel/10.htm" title="Daniel 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/daniel/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Daniel’s Prayer for His People</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>It was the first year of the reign of Darius the Mede, the son of Ahasuerus, who became king of the Babylonians.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>During the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, learned from reading the word of the LORD, as revealed to Jeremiah the prophet, that Jerusalem must lie desolate for seventy years.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting. I also wore rough burlap and sprinkled myself with ashes.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed:</p><p class="b"/><p class="pmo">“O Lord, you are a great and awesome God! You always fulfill your covenant and keep your promises of unfailing love to those who love you and obey your commands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, who spoke on your authority to our kings and princes and ancestors and to all the people of the land.</p><p class="pm"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Lord, you are in the right; but as you see, our faces are covered with shame. This is true of all of us, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>O LORD, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But the Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>We have not obeyed the LORD our God, for we have not followed the instructions he gave us through his servants the prophets. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>All Israel has disobeyed your instruction and turned away, refusing to listen to your voice.</p><p class="pm">“So now the solemn curses and judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured down on us because of our sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You have kept your word and done to us and our rulers exactly as you warned. Never has there been such a disaster as happened in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Every curse written against us in the Law of Moses has come true. Yet we have refused to seek mercy from the LORD our God by turning from our sins and recognizing his truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore, the LORD has brought upon us the disaster he prepared. The LORD our God was right to do all of these things, for we did not obey him.</p><p class="pm"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“O Lord our God, you brought lasting honor to your name by rescuing your people from Egypt in a great display of power. But we have sinned and are full of wickedness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>In view of all your faithful mercies, Lord, please turn your furious anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. All the neighboring nations mock Jerusalem and your people because of our sins and the sins of our ancestors.</p><p class="pm"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“O our God, hear your servant’s prayer! Listen as I plead. For your own sake, Lord, smile again on your desolate sanctuary.</p><p class="pm"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“O my God, lean down and listen to me. Open your eyes and see our despair. See how your city—the city that bears your name—lies in ruins. We make this plea, not because we deserve help, but because of your mercy.</p><p class="pm"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and act! For your own sake, do not delay, O my God, for your people and your city bear your name.”</p><p class="hdg">Gabriel’s Message about the Anointed One</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I went on praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people, pleading with the LORD my God for Jerusalem, his holy mountain. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>As I was praying, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the earlier vision, came swiftly to me at the time of the evening sacrifice. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He explained to me, “Daniel, I have come here to give you insight and understanding. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The moment you began praying, a command was given. And now I am here to tell you what it was, for you are very precious to God. Listen carefully so that you can understand the meaning of your vision.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“A period of seventy sets of seven<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> has been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish their rebellion, to put an end to their sin, to atone for their guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to confirm the prophetic vision, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Now listen and understand! Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> will pass from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until a ruler—the Anointed One<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a>—comes. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> despite the perilous times.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“After this period of sixty-two sets of seven,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a> the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. The end will come with a flood, and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The ruler will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">i</span></a> but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings. And as a climax to all his terrible deeds,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">j</span></a> he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">k</span></a> until the fate decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on him.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the Chaldeans.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:2 </span><span class="ft">See Jer 25:11-12; 29:10.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:24a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">seventy sevens.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:24b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the Most Holy One.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:25a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Seven sevens plus sixty-two sevens.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:25b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">an anointed one; </span><span class="ft">similarly in 9:26. Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">a messiah.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:25c </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">and a moat,</span><span class="ft"> or </span><span class="it">and trenches.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:26 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">After sixty-two sevens.</span><br><span class="fn">i</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:27a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">for one seven.</span><br><span class="fn">j</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:27b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">And on the wing;</span><span class="ft"> the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">k</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:27c </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">an abomination of desolation.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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