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And during his first year as king, I found out from studying the writings of the prophets that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had said to Jeremiah, “Jerusalem will lie in ruins for 70 years.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.1-Dan.9.2!f.4" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v27_9_3"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.3-Dan.9.4" class="v27_9_3">3-4</span>Then, to show my sorrow, I went without eating and dressed in sackcloth<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.3-Dan.9.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and sat in ashes. I confessed my sins and earnestly prayed to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> my God:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v27_9_3">Our Lord, you are a great and fearsome God, and you faithfully keep your agreement with those who love and obey you. </span><span class="v27_9_5"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.5" class="v27_9_5">5</span>But we have sinned terribly by rebelling against you and rejecting your laws and teachings. </span><span class="v27_9_6"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.6" class="v27_9_6">6</span>We have ignored the message your servants the prophets spoke to our kings, our leaders, our ancestors, and everyone else.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v27_9_7"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.7" class="v27_9_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Everything you do is right, our Lord. But still we suffer public disgrace because we have been unfaithful and have sinned against you. This includes all of us, both far and near—the people of Judah, Jerusalem, and Israel, as well as those you dragged away to foreign lands, </span><span class="v27_9_8"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.8" class="v27_9_8">8</span>and even our kings, our officials, and our ancestors. </span><span class="v27_9_9"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.9" class="v27_9_9">9</span><span class="nd">Lord</span> God, you are merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against you </span><span class="v27_9_10"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.10" class="v27_9_10">10</span>and rejected your teachings that came to us from your servants the prophets.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v27_9_11"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.11" class="v27_9_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Everyone in Israel has stubbornly refused to obey your laws, and so those curses written by your servant Moses have fallen upon us. </span><span class="v27_9_12"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.12" class="v27_9_12">12</span>You warned us and our leaders that Jerusalem would suffer the worst disaster in human history, and you did exactly as you had threatened. </span><span class="v27_9_13"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.13" class="v27_9_13">13</span>We have not escaped any of the terrible curses written by Moses, and yet we have refused to beg you for mercy and to remind ourselves of how faithful you have always been. </span><span class="v27_9_14"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.14" class="v27_9_14">14</span>And when you finally punished us with this horrible disaster, that was also the right thing to do, because we deserved it so much.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v27_9_15"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.15" class="v27_9_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Our Lord God, with your own mighty arm you rescued us from Egypt and made yourself famous to this very day, but we have sinned terribly. </span><span class="v27_9_16"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.16" class="v27_9_16">16</span>In the past, you treated us with such kindness, that we now beg you to stop being so terribly angry with Jerusalem. After all, it is your chosen city built on your holy mountain, even though it has suffered public disgrace because of our sins and those of our ancestors.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v27_9_17"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.17" class="v27_9_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I am your servant, Lord God, and I beg you to answer my prayers and bring honor to yourself by having pity on your temple that lies in ruins. </span><span class="v27_9_18"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.18" class="v27_9_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Please show mercy to your chosen city, not because we deserve it, but because of your great kindness. </span><span class="v27_9_19"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.19" class="v27_9_19">19</span>Forgive us! Hurry and do something, not only for your city and your chosen people, but to bring honor to yourself.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The Seventy Weeks</h3><h5 class="sp">Daniel wrote:</h5><p class="par"><span class="v27_9_20"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.20" class="v27_9_20">20</span>I was still confessing my sins and those of all Israel to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> my God, and I was praying for the good of his holy mountain,<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.20!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v27_9_21"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.21" class="v27_9_21">21</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.21!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> when Gabriel suddenly came flying in at the time of the evening sacrifice. This was the same Gabriel I had seen in my vision, </span><span class="v27_9_22"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.22" class="v27_9_22">22</span>and he explained:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v27_9_22">Daniel, I am here to help you understand the vision. </span><span class="v27_9_23"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.23" class="v27_9_23">23</span>God thinks highly of you, and at the very moment you started praying, I was sent to give you the answer. </span><span class="v27_9_24"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.24" class="v27_9_24">24</span>God has decided that for 70 weeks,<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.24!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> your people and your holy city must suffer as the price of their sins. Then evil will disappear, and justice will rule forever; the visions and words of the prophets will come true, and a most holy place will be dedicated.<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.24!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v27_9_25"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.25" class="v27_9_25">25</span>You need to realize that from the command to rebuild Jerusalem until the coming of the Chosen Leader,<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.25!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> it will be 7 weeks and another 62 weeks.<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.25!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Streets will be built in Jerusalem, and a trench will be dug around the city for protection, but these will be difficult times.<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.25!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v27_9_26"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.26" class="v27_9_26">26</span>At the end of the 62 weeks,<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.26!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the Chosen Leader<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.26!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> will be killed and left with nothing.<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.26!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v27_9_26">A foreign ruler and his army will sweep down like a mighty flood, leaving both the city and the temple in ruins, and war and destruction will continue until the end, just as God has decided. </span><span class="v27_9_27"><span class="reftext" id="Dan.9.27" class="v27_9_27">27</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.27!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> For one week<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.27!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> this foreigner<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.27!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> will make a firm agreement with many people, and halfway through this week,<a href="#fn" id="link_Dan.9.27!f.4" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> he will end all sacrifices and offerings. Then the “Horrible Thing” that causes destruction will be put there. And it will stay there until the time God has decided to destroy this one who destroys.</span></p></div> </div> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.1,2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Darius the Mede: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 5.31.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.1,2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Xerxes: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “Ahasuerus.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.1,2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">70 years: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See Jeremiah 25.11-13; 29.10.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.3,4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sackcloth: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A rough, dark-colored cloth made from goat or camel hair and used to make grain sacks. It was worn in times of trouble or sorrow.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.20 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">holy mountain: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Jerusalem (see verse 16) or the temple.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.24 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">70 weeks: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “70 times 7 years.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.24 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">a most holy place will be dedicated: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “God's Holy One will appear.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.25 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the Chosen Leader: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “a chosen leader.” In Hebrew the word “chosen” means “to pour oil (on someone's head).” In Old Testament times it was the custom to pour oil on a person's head when that person was chosen to be a priest or a king.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.25 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">7 weeks and another 62 weeks: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “7 times 7 years and another 62 times 7 years.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.25 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">it will be 7 … difficult times: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “it will be 7 weeks. Then streets will be built in Jerusalem, and a trench will be dug around the city for protection. But Jerusalem will have difficult times for 62 weeks.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.26 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">62 weeks: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “62 times 7 years.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.26 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the Chosen Leader: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 9.25.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.26 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">left with nothing: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “no one will take his place.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.27 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">one week: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “7 years.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.27 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">this foreigner: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “the Chosen Leader.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.27 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">halfway through this week: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “for half of this week of 7 years.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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