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19 Forgive us! Hurry and do something, not only for your city and your chosen people, but to bring honor to yourself.

The Seventy Weeks

Daniel wrote:

20 I was still confessing my sins and those of all Israel to the Lord my God, and I was praying for the good of his holy mountain,[a] 21 (A) when Gabriel suddenly came flying in at the time of the evening sacrifice. This was the same Gabriel I had seen in my vision,

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Footnotes

  1. 9.20 holy mountain: Jerusalem (see verse 16) or the temple.

19 Lord, listen! Lord, forgive!(A) Lord, hear and act! For your sake,(B) my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name.”

The Seventy “Sevens”

20 While I was speaking and praying, confessing(C) my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the Lord my God for his holy hill(D) 21 while I was still in prayer, Gabriel,(E) the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.(F)

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