9 LES
9:1 In the first year of Darius, son of Xerxes, from the race of the Medes, who ruled over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,
9:2 in the first year of his kingdom, I, Daniel, searched and perceived in the scrolls the number of years during which would take place the command concerning the land to the prophet Jeremiah to accomplish the fulfillment of the disgrace of Jerusalem, seventy years.
9:3 So I set my face toward the Lord God to seek in prayer and compassion with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
9:4 And I prayed to the Lord God and made confession and said, “Behold, O Lord, you are the great and mighty God, and the fearful one who watches over your covenant and shows compassion to those who love you and to those who keep your commands.
9:5 We have sinned, we have behaved unjustly, we have acted impiously, and we have turned away, and we have transgressed your commandments and your directives.
9:6 And we did not obey your servants, the prophets, with regard to the things they spoke in your name to our kings and to our leaders and to our fathers and to every nation upon the earth.
9:7 And to you, O Lord, is righteousness, but ours is the shame of our countenance on this day, to the people of Judah, and to those abiding in Jerusalem, and to all the people of Israel, to the one who is nearby and to the one who is far away among all the countries to which you have scattered them for their sin by which they have trespassed against you.
9:8 O Master, ours is the shame of our countenance, and our kings and our leaders and our fathers, for we have wronged you.
9:9 To the Lord is righteousness and mercy, for we have turned away from you.
9:10 And we did not obey the voice of the Lord, our God, to follow your law that you presented before Moses and before us, through your servants, the prophets.
9:11 And all Israel forsook your law and turned away from listening to your voice. And there came upon us the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, because we sinned against it.
9:12 And he established for us his commandments concerning everything he spoke to us, and to our judges with respect to the things you have judged us by bringing upon us great destructive acts of such a kind that had not occurred under heaven the way they have occurred in Jerusalem.
9:13 According to the things written in the covenant of Moses, every destructive evil has come upon us, and we did not seek the face of the Lord, our God, so as to turn away from our sins and to understand and seek after your righteousness, O Lord.
9:14 And the Lord God was watchful concerning these evil judgments and has brought this upon us, for just is the Lord, our God, with respect to everything, whatever it is, that he does, and we did not obey his voice.
9:15 And now, O Master, O Lord, our God, who led out your people from Egypt with your arm lifted high, and you have acted on behalf of your own name this very day; but we have sinned, we have gone amiss.
9:16 O Master, according to your righteousness let your anger and your wrath be turned back away from your city, Jerusalem, your holy mountain, for by our sins and by the ignorant errors of our fathers Jerusalem and your people, O Lord, have become a reproach among all those around us.
9:17 And now hearken, O Master, to the plea of your servant and to my prayers and let your face look upon your holy mountain that is desolate for the sake of your servants, O Master.
9:18 Turn your ears, O Lord, and hear me, open your eyes and look at our desolation and the desolation of your city, upon which your name is placed over it. For it is not with respect to our righteousness that we are making entreaty in our prayers before you, but on the basis of your compassion. O Lord, be thou gracious.
9:19 O Lord, listen and act, and do not tarry for your own sake, O Master, for your name is placed upon your city, Zion, and upon your people, Israel.”
9:20 And as I was talking, praying and confessing my sins and the sins of my people, Israel, and entreating with prayers before the Lord, my God, and on behalf of the holy mountain of our God,
9:21 while I was speaking in my prayer, then behold, the man whom I had seen in my first sleep, Gabriel, was swiftly coming on. He drew near to me at the time of the evening offering.
9:22 And he approached and spoke with me and said, “Daniel, I have now come forth to impart understanding to you.
9:23 At the beginning of your entreaty an order went forth from the Lord, and I have come to show you, for you are one who has received mercy, so understand and grasp the decree given.
9:24 Seventy sevens have been decreed upon your people and upon the city, Zion, to complete the guilt and to deal with the unjust offenses and to wipe away the injustices and to fully understand the vision and to establish everlasting righteousness and to complete the visions and the prophet and to delight in the holy of holies.
9:25 And you will know and understand and rejoice, and you will find commands to respond, and you will build Jerusalem, the city, for the Lord.
9:26 And after seven periods of seven and sixty-two periods of seven, an anointed place will be removed, and it will not be. And a kingdom from among the nations will despoil the city and the holy place along with the anointed one, and his end will come with destructive anger until the set time of the consummation. There will be war upon war.
9:27 And the covenant will be made strong for many, and it will recover again, and it will be built up in breadth and length. And at the end of the appointed times, and after seven periods of seventy appointed times and sixty-two years during the set time of the consummation of war, then the desolation will be taken away when the covenant prevails for many weeks. And at the completion of the period of seven, offering and drink-offering will be taken away, and upon the holy place there will be an abomination of desolation until the end. And a determined final destruction will be rendered upon the one making desolate.”
