Daniel 9
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Daniel 9
Daniel’s Prayer for the People
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Dan 5.31; 11.1 In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, by birth a Mede, who became king over the realm of the Chaldeans, 2#2 Chr 36.21; Jer 29.10; Zech 7.5I,#9.2 Theodotion: Heb in the first year of his reign, I Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the LORD to the prophet Jeremiah, must be fulfilled for the devastation of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
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Neh 1.4; Jer 29.12; Jas 4.8 Then I turned to the Lord God to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. 4#Deut 7.9, 21; Neh 9.32I prayed to the LORD my God and made confession, saying,
“Ah, Lord, great and awesome God, keeping covenant and steadfast love with those who love you#9.4 Heb him and keep your#9.4 Heb his commandments, 5#v 11; Ps 106.6; Lam 1.18, 20we have sinned and done wrong, acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and ordinances. 6We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land.
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Jer 23.6; 33.16; Am 9.9 “Righteousness is on your side, O Lord, but open shame, as at this day, falls on us, the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them because of the treachery that they have committed against you. 8Open shame, O LORD, falls on us, our kings, our princes, and our ancestors because we have sinned against you. 9#Neh 9.17; Ps 130.4To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, but we have rebelled against him 10and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by following his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
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Deut 27.15; Isa 1.4–6; Jer 8.5, 10 “All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. So the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out upon us because we have sinned against you. 12#Isa 44.26; Ezek 5.9; Zech 1.6He has confirmed his words that he spoke against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a calamity so great that what has been done against Jerusalem has never before been done under the whole heaven. 13#Isa 9.13; Jer 2.30Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us. We did not entreat the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and reflecting on his#9.13 Heb your fidelity. 14#vv 7, 10; Jer 31.28; 44.27So the LORD kept watch over this calamity until he brought it upon us. Indeed, the LORD our God is right in all that he has done, for we have disobeyed his voice.
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Ex 6.1, 6; Neh 9.10; Jer 32.20, 21 “And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and made your name renowned even to this day—we have sinned, we have done wickedly. 16#1 Sam 12.7; Ps 31.1; Zech 8.3O Lord, in view of all your righteous acts, let your anger and wrath, we pray, turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become a disgrace among all our neighbors. 17#Num 6.25; Lam 5.18Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, and for your own sake, Lord,#9.17 Theodotion Vg Compare Syr: Heb for the Lord’s sake let your face shine upon your desolated sanctuary. 18#Isa 37.17; Jer 25.29; 36.7Incline your ear, O my God, and hear. Open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that bears your name. We do not present our supplication before you on the ground of our righteousness but on the ground of your great mercies. 19#Ps 44.23; 74.10, 11O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act and do not delay! For your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people bear your name!”
The Seventy Weeks
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Isa 6.5; 58.9 While I was speaking and was praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God on behalf of the holy mountain of my God, 21#Isa 6.2; Dan 8.16, 18; 10.10, 16, 18while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen before in a vision, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice. 22He came#9.22 Gk Syr: Heb He made to understand and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come out to give you wisdom and understanding. 23#Dan 10.12; Mt 24.15; Lk 1.28At the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to declare it, for you are greatly beloved. So consider the word and understand the vision:
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Isa 53.10; Acts 3.14; Rom 5.10 “Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.#9.24 Or thing or one 25#Ezra 4.24; Neh 2.1–8; 3.1; Isa 9.6; Jn 1.41; 4.25Know therefore and understand: from the time that the word went out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the time of an anointed prince, there shall be seven weeks, and for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with streets and moat, but in a troubled time. 26#Isa 53.8; Nah 1.8; Mk 9.12; Lk 19.43, 44After the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing, and the troops of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its#9.26 Or His end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed. 27#Isa 10.23; Dan 11.31; Mt 24.15; Lk 21.20He shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall make sacrifice and offering cease, and in their place#9.27 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain shall be a desolating sacrilege until the decreed end is poured out upon the desolator.”
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