Daniel 9 - English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)

Daniel's Prayer for His People

9 ^(A)In the first year of ^(B)Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a ^(C)Mede, who was made king over the realm of the ^(D)Chaldeans— ² in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to ^(E)the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

³ Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by ^(F)prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. ⁴ I prayed to the Lord my God and ^(G)made confession, saying, ^(H)“O Lord, the ^(I)great and awesome God, who ^(J)keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, ^{5 (K)}we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly ^(L)and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. ^{6 (M)}We have not listened to ^(N)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to ^(O)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ To you, ^(P)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, ^(Q)those who are near and ^(R)those who are far away, in ^(S)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of ^(T)the treachery that they have committed against you. ⁸ To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because ^(U)we have sinned against you. ^{9 (V)}To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him ^{10 (W)}and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by ^(X)his servants the prophets. ^{11 (Y)}All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, ^(Z)refusing to obey your voice. ^(AA)And the curse and oath ^(AB)that are written in the Law of ^(AC)Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because ^(AD)we have sinned against him. ¹² He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against ^(AE)our rulers who ruled us,^[a] by ^(AF)bringing upon us a great calamity. ^(AG)For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. ^{13 (AH)}As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favour of the Lord our God, ^(AI)turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. ^{14 (AJ)}Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, ^(AK)for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and ^(AL)we have not obeyed his voice. ¹⁵ And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt ^(AM)with a mighty hand, and ^(AN)have made a name for yourself, as at this day, ^(AO)we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

¹⁶ “O Lord, ^(AP)according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, ^(AQ)your holy hill, ^(AR)because for our sins, and for ^(AS)the iniquities of our fathers, ^(AT)Jerusalem and your people have become ^(AU)a byword among all who are around us. ¹⁷ Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord,^{[b] (AV)}make your face to shine upon ^(AW)your sanctuary, which is desolate. ^{18 (AX)}O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see ^(AY)our desolations, and ^(AZ)the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. ^(BA)Delay not, ^(BB)for your own sake, O my God, because ^(BC)your city and ^(BD)your people are called by your name.”

Gabriel Brings an Answer

^{20 (BE)}While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the Lord my God for ^(BF)the holy hill of my God, ²¹ while I was speaking in prayer, the man ^(BG)Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, ^(BH)came to me in swift flight at ^(BI)the time of the evening sacrifice. ^{22 (BJ)}He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you ^(BK)insight and understanding. ^{23 (BL)}At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, ^(BM)and I have come to tell it to you, for ^(BN)you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word ^(BO)and understand the vision.

The Seventy Weeks

^{24 (BP)}“Seventy weeks^[c] are decreed about your people and ^(BQ)your holy city, to finish ^(BR)the transgression, to put an end to sin, ^(BS)and to atone for iniquity, ^(BT)to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and ^(BU)to anoint a most holy place.^{[d] 25 (BV)}Know therefore and understand that ^(BW)from the going out of the word to restore and ^(BX)build Jerusalem to the coming of an ^(BY)anointed one, a ^(BZ)prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, ^(CA)but in a troubled time. ²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall ^(CB)be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come ^(CC)shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ^(CD)Its^[e] end shall come with a flood, ^(CE)and to the end there shall be war. ^(CF)Desolations are decreed. ²⁷ And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week,^[f] and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. ^(CG)And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until ^(CH)the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

Footnotes

1. Daniel 9:12 Or our judges who judged us
2. Daniel 9:17 Hebrew for the Lord's sake
3. Daniel 9:24 Or sevens; also twice in verse 25 and once in verse 26
4. Daniel 9:24 Or thing, or one
5. Daniel 9:26 Or His
6. Daniel 9:27 Or seven; twice in this verse

Cross references

1. Daniel 9:1 : ch. 11:1
2. Daniel 9:1 : See ch. 5:31
3. Daniel 9:1 : [ch. 8:20]
4. Daniel 9:1 : ch. 5:30
5. Daniel 9:2 : [Ezra 1:1; Jer. 25:12]
6. Daniel 9:3 : ver. 17, 18, 23; [Neh. 1:4]
7. Daniel 9:4 : ver. 20; [Ezra 10:1; Neh. 1:6]
8. Daniel 9:4 : Neh. 1:5; 9:32
9. Daniel 9:4 : Neh. 1:5; 9:32
10. Daniel 9:4 : Deut. 7:9
11. Daniel 9:5 : ver. 15
12. Daniel 9:5 : Lam. 3:42
13. Daniel 9:6 : 2 Chr. 36:15, 16
14. Daniel 9:6 : Ezra 9:11; Zech. 1:6
15. Daniel 9:6 : Ezra 9:7; Neh. 9:34
16. Daniel 9:7 : [ver. 14; Lam. 1:18]
17. Daniel 9:7 : [Esth. 9:20]
18. Daniel 9:7 : [Esth. 9:20]
19. Daniel 9:7 : See Jer. 8:3
20. Daniel 9:7 : Lev. 26:40
21. Daniel 9:8 : [See ver. 5 above]; ver. 15
22. Daniel 9:9 : Neh. 9:17; Ps. 86:15
23. Daniel 9:10 : [See ver. 6 above]; 2 Chr. 36:15, 16
24. Daniel 9:10 : [See ver. 6 above]; Ezra 9:11; Zech. 1:6
25. Daniel 9:11 : See Isa. 1:4-6
26. Daniel 9:11 : [Jer. 40:3; 44:23]
27. Daniel 9:11 : Jer. 44:22
28. Daniel 9:11 : See Lev. 26:14-45; Deut. 28:15-68
29. Daniel 9:11 : 1 Chr. 6:49; 2 Chr. 24:9; Neh. 10:29
30. Daniel 9:11 : [See ver. 5 above]; ver. 15
31. Daniel 9:12 : [Ps. 82:2, 3]
32. Daniel 9:12 : Jer. 39:16
33. Daniel 9:12 : Ezek. 5:9; [Lam. 1:12]
34. Daniel 9:13 : [See ver. 11 above]; See Lev. 26:14-45; Deut. 28:15-68
35. Daniel 9:13 : Hos. 7:10
36. Daniel 9:14 : [Jer. 1:12]
37. Daniel 9:14 : Neh. 9:33; See ver. 7
38. Daniel 9:14 : ver. 10
39. Daniel 9:15 : Ex. 32:11; [Ex. 6:1; Neh. 1:10]
40. Daniel 9:15 : Ex. 14:18; Neh. 9:10
41. Daniel 9:15 : See ver. 5
42. Daniel 9:16 : Ps. 31:1; 71:2
43. Daniel 9:16 : ver. 20; ch. 11:45; Jer. 31:23; Zech. 8:3
44. Daniel 9:16 : Lam. 1:5
45. Daniel 9:16 : [Ex. 20:5]
46. Daniel 9:16 : Lam. 2:15, 16
47. Daniel 9:16 : Ps. 44:13; 79:4; Ezek. 36:4; Mic. 6:16
48. Daniel 9:17 : Num. 6:25
49. Daniel 9:17 : Lam. 5:18
50. Daniel 9:18 : 2 Kgs. 19:16; Isa. 37:17
51. Daniel 9:18 : ver. 26; See ver. 27
52. Daniel 9:18 : Jer. 25:29
53. Daniel 9:19 : Ps. 40:17; 70:5
54. Daniel 9:19 : Ps. 25:11; 79:9
55. Daniel 9:19 : [See ver. 18 above]; Jer. 25:29
56. Daniel 9:19 : Jer. 14:9
57. Daniel 9:20 : Isa. 65:24
58. Daniel 9:20 : See ver. 16
59. Daniel 9:21 : See ch. 8:16
60. Daniel 9:21 : See ch. 8:18
61. Daniel 9:21 : Ex. 29:39; [1 Kgs. 18:36; Ezra 9:4, 5]
62. Daniel 9:22 : [ch. 8:16]
63. Daniel 9:22 : [ch. 1:4, 17]
64. Daniel 9:23 : [ver. 20]
65. Daniel 9:23 : [ch. 10:12, 14]
66. Daniel 9:23 : ch. 10:11, 19
67. Daniel 9:23 : [Matt. 24:15; Mark 13:14]
68. Daniel 9:24 : [Ezek. 4:6]
69. Daniel 9:24 : Neh. 11:1
70. Daniel 9:24 : ch. 8:13
71. Daniel 9:24 : [Ps. 78:38; Heb. 2:17]; See Jer. 31:34
72. Daniel 9:24 : Rom. 3:25, 26; See Jer. 23:5, 6
73. Daniel 9:24 : [Ps. 45:7; Isa. 61:1; Acts 4:26, 27]
74. Daniel 9:25 : [ver. 23]
75. Daniel 9:25 : [2 Chr. 36:23; Ezra 1:3; 4:24; 6:15; Neh. 6:15]
76. Daniel 9:25 : [Ps. 51:18]
77. Daniel 9:25 : John 1:41
78. Daniel 9:25 : Isa. 55:4
79. Daniel 9:25 : See Neh. 4:7, 8, 16-18
80. Daniel 9:26 : Isa. 53:8; [Mark 9:12; Luke 24:26]
81. Daniel 9:26 : [Matt. 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 19:43, 44]
82. Daniel 9:26 : Nah. 1:8; [ch. 11:10, 22, 26, 40]
83. Daniel 9:26 : Matt. 24:6, 14
84. Daniel 9:26 : ver. 18; See ver. 27
85. Daniel 9:27 : Matt. 24:15; Mark 13:14; [Luke 21:20]
86. Daniel 9:27 : Isa. 10:23