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in the first year of his reign,[a] I, Daniel, understood from the scrolls that, according to the word of the Lord given to the prophet Jeremiah, the number of years it would take to complete the devastation of Jerusalem was seventy years.

With fasting, sackcloth, and ashes I turned my face to the Lord God to seek him in prayer and to plead for grace. I prayed to the Lord, my God, and I made confession.

Please, Lord, you are the great God, who is to be feared,[b] who keeps the covenant, and who shows mercy to those who love him and keep his commands.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:2 In 539 bc
  2. Daniel 9:4 Or revered

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy(A) years. So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting,(B) and in sackcloth and ashes.(C)

I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed:(D)

“Lord, the great and awesome God,(E) who keeps his covenant of love(F) with those who love him and keep his commandments,

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