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| RF DAN 9:1 | (538 B.C.) The Period of Restoration and Daniels Prayer for it.
"In the first year of Darius, son of Khushrush, of the Median Race, who became King over the Empire of the Kasdim.— |
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| RF DAN 9:2 | in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, ascertained from the records the years that the LORD had said to Jeremiah, the Preacher, should pass for the completion of the ruin of Jerusalem,—Seventy years. |
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| RF DAN 9:3 | So I turned my face to seek ALMIGHTY GOD, by prayer and supplication, with fasting and sackcloth, and ashes. |
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| RF DAN 9:4 | Daniels Prayer.
I also prayed to the LORD my GOD, and gave thanks and said, "O, LORD! the GREAT and terrible GOD! Who keeps the covenant with those who love Him, and keep His commands,— |
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| RF DAN 9:5 | we have offended and sinned, and revolted and turned from your instructions, and decrees! |
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| RF DAN 9:6 | And we have not listened to your servants the Preachers, who spoke in Your Name to our kings, princes, and fathers, and to all the People of the country. |
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| RF DAN 9:7 | Righteousness is Yours, ALMIGHTY! but to us shame of face, as at this day;—to the men of Judah, and the population of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, whether near or afar, in every country where they have fled, because of the sin they have sinned against You. |
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| RF DAN 9:8 | "ALMIGHTY! with us, our kings, our princes, and fathers, who sinned against you, is Shame of face! |
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| RF DAN 9:9 | But with our ALMIGHTY GOD are pities and mercies, although we have rebelled against Him, |
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| RF DAN 9:10 | and have not listened to the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His paths that He prepared before us, by the means of His servants the Preachers. |
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| RF DAN 9:11 | And all Israel has transgressed Your laws, and gone away so as not to listen to Your voice! Consequently the curse has been poured upon us, and the threat that was written in the Law of Moses, the servant of GOD, because we sinned against Him. |
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| RF DAN 9:12 | And He has confirmed His words that He spoke against us, and against our Rulers, who governed us, that HE would bring upon us great sufferings such as were never heard of under all the heavens, and which occurred at Jerusalem, |
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| RF DAN 9:13 | as they had been written in the Laws of Moses,—all those sufferings have come upon us!—Yet we appeased not the face of the EVER-LIVING GOD, by turning from our sins and by comprehending the truth. |
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| RF DAN 9:14 | Consequently the EVER-LIVING watched for the suffering, and brought it upon us,—for the EVER-LIVING GOD is absolutely right in all the acts that He does.—but we do not listen to His voice. |
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| RF DAN 9:15 | "But now, ALMIGHTY GOD, who brought Your People from out of the land of the Mitzeraim with a strong hand, and made yourself renowned, as at this day,—we have offended! We have done wrong! |
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| RF DAN 9:16 | ALMIGHTY, although You are right in what You have done, turn away Your anger, and wrath, I pray, from Your city, Jerusalem,—Your Holy Hill,—because by our offences, and the sins of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your People are a reproach amongst all around them. |
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| RF DAN 9:17 | So now, listen, our GOD, to the prayer of Your servant, and to his entreaty, and let Your face shine upon Your desolate Sanctuary. |
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| RF DAN 9:18 | For my sake, LORD, incline your ear, my GOD, and hear,—open Your eyes and see the desolations of the City upon which Your name was invoked,—because not for our righteousness do we let our entreaties fall before Your face, but because of Your many mercies. |
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| RF DAN 9:19 | "ALMIGHTY! listen! ALMIGHTY, pardon! ALMIGHTY, hear, and act! Delay not for Your own sake, my GOD, because Your Name was invoked over Your City and over Your People." |
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| RF DAN 9:20 | Then while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my faults, and the faults of my People, Israel, and letting my entreaty fall before the LORD my GOD, on account of the Holy Hill of my GOD,— |
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| RF DAN 9:21 | then, while I was speaking and praying, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the previous Vision when exhausted, approached me, about the time of the evening offering, and, entering, |
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| RF DAN 9:22 | Gabriel's Revelation on his Second Appearance.
spoke and said to me;—"Daniel, I have come to teach you to understand. |
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| RF DAN 9:23 | At the beginning of your entreaty the command was issued, and I am come to say you are highly honoured, so reflect upon the affair, and reflect upon the revelation. |
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| RF DAN 9:24 | "Seventy weeks are fixed upon your People, and upon the Holy City, for all their revolts, and to expiate their offences, and to expiate their sin, and to bring forward Eternal righteousness, and to accomplish the Vision, and Prophecy, and the MESSIAH—the HOLIEST of the HOLY. |
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| RF DAN 9:25 | "So know, and comprehend;—that from the issue of the order to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the MESSIAH arrives, is seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. "(It will be restored and built with streets and moat, in times of distress.) |
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| RF DAN 9:26 | "And after the sixty-two weeks, the MESSIAH will be slain,—and none support Him." After that, the City, and the Sanctuary will be desolated by a Dominating People who are brought on.—But its end will be with a torrent, and its abolition by war. The desolations are fixed. |
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| RF DAN 9:27 | But the Covenant will be guarded by many for a week, and in the middle of the week, He will make the sacrifice and the offering to cease, and the Loathsome Brute will desolate to the extreme;—but at last a wound will be given to the Desolators." |
