KJ3 Literal Translation
Daniel 9
Daniel prays for the restoration of Jerusalem. Gabriel informs him of the seventy weeks.
1In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,
2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood by the scrolls the number of the years, which had been a Word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
3And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
4And I prayed to Jehovah my God, and confessed, saying, O Lord, the great and awesome God, keeping the covenant and kindness of those who love Him, and to those who keep His commandments,
5we have sinned and have done iniquity and have done evilly, and we have rebelled, even by departing from Your commandments and from Your judgments.
6And we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our rulers, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us the shame of our faces, as it is this day to the men of Judah, and to those living in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near and who are afar through all the lands where You have driven them for their unfaithfulness which they have done against You.
8O Lord, to us is shame of face, to our kings, to our rulers and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
9To the Lord our God belong mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against Him,
10and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws which he gave before us by His servants the prophets.
11Yea, all Israel has transgressed Your Law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice. And the curse has poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.
12And He has raised up His words which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judge us, by bringing on us a great evil, which under the whole heavens has not been done as it has been done to Jerusalem.
13As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. And we have not made our prayer before the face of Jehovah our God that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.
14And Jehovah has watched the evil and has made it come on us. For Jehovah our God is righteous in all His works which He does; and we did not obey His voice.
15And now, O Lord our God, who brought out Your people from the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and made for Yourself a name, as it is this day, we have sinned; we have done evilly.
16O Lord, I pray, according to all Your righteousness, let Your anger and Your fury be turned back from Your city Jerusalem, Your mountain of holiness. For because of our sins and of the iniquity of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.
17And now, listen, O our God, to the prayer of Your servant and his supplications, and cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the sake of the Lord.
18O my God, stretch out Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our ruins and the city which is called with Your name on it. For we do not make our prayers fall before You on account of our righteousnesses, but because of Your great mercies.
19O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, attend to us and work! Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God, for Your name is called on Your city and on Your people.
20And while I was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and making my cry fall before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God,
21and while I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, touched me when I being weary in my weariness, about the time of the evening sacrifice.
22And he gave discernment to me and spoke with me, and said, O Daniel, I have now come out to give you skill in understanding.
23At the beginning of your prayers the Word came forth, and I have come to declare it. For you are greatly beloved, and to discern the matter and understand the vision:
24Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people, and as to your holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.
25Know, then, and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem, to Messiah the Ruler, shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. The broad place shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of distress.
26And after sixty-two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of a coming ruler shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end shall be with the flood, and are determined the desolations, and war shall be until the end.
27And he shall confirm a covenant with the many for one week. And in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. And on a corner of the altar will be abominations that desolate, even until the end. And that which was decreed shall pour out on the desolated.
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