Daniel 9:16-27
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16 O Lord,
according to all thy righteousness,
I beseech thee,
let thine anger and thy fury be turned away
from thy city Jerusalem,
thy holy mountain:
because for our sins,
and for the iniquities of our fathers,
Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach
to all that are about us.
17 Now therefore, O our God,
hear the prayer of thy servant,
and his supplications,
and cause thy face to shine
upon thy sanctuary that is desolate,
for the Lord's sake.
18 O my God,
incline thine ear, and hear;
open thine eyes, and behold our desolations,
and the city which is called by thy name:
for we do not present our supplications before thee
for our righteousnesses,
but for thy great mercies.
19 O Lord, hear;
O Lord, forgive;
O Lord, hearken and do;
defer not, for thine own sake, O my God:
for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
20 And whiles I was speaking,
and praying,
and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel,
and presenting my supplication
before the Lord my God
for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer,
even the man Gabriel,
whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning,
being caused to fly swiftly,
touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed me,
and talked with me,
and said, O Daniel,
I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
23 At the beginning of thy supplications
the commandment came forth,
and I am come to shew thee;
for thou art greatly beloved:
therefore understand the matter,
and consider the vision.
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people
and upon thy holy city,
to finish the transgression,
and to make an end of sins,
and to make reconciliation for iniquity,
and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up the vision and prophecy,
and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand,
that from the going forth of the commandment
to restore and to build Jerusalem
unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks,
and threescore and two weeks:
the street shall be built again,
and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks
shall Messiah be cut off,
but not for himself:
and the people of the prince that shall come
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;
and the end thereof shall be with a flood,
and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many
for one week:
and in the midst of the week
he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,
and for the overspreading of abominations
he shall make it desolate,
even until the consummation,
and that determined shall be poured
upon the desolate.
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