C.
Concerning Israel in the seventy weeks apportioned out to them
9:1-27
1.
The year of the vision (about 538 B.C.)
vv. 1-2
Dan. 9
:1
9:1
In the first year of
aDarius the son of Ahasuerus, a Median descendant who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,
2.
The cause of the vision
v. 2
Dan. 9
:2
9:2
In the first year of his reign
I, Daniel, understood by means of the
1Scriptures the number of the years, which came as the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet, for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem,
that is,
aseventy years.
3.
The way to obtain the vision
vv. 3-23
Dan. 9
:3
9:3
So I set my face toward the Lord God to
1seek Him in
aprayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Dan. 9
:4
9:4
And I prayed to Jehovah my God and confessed; and I said, Ah, Lord, the
agreat and awesome God, who keeps covenant and
blovingkindness with those who love Him and keep His commandments,
Dan. 9
:5
9:5
We have
asinned and have committed iniquity, and we have acted wickedly and rebelled,
to the point of even turning away from Your commandments and from Your judgments.
Dan. 9
:6
9:6
And we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our chief men, and our fathers, as well as to all the people of the land.
Dan. 9
:7
9:7
To You, Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us, shamefacedness, as it is this day,
that is, to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off in all the lands to which You have driven them because of their trespass by which they have trespassed against You.
Dan. 9
:8
9:8
O Jehovah, to us belongs shamefacedness, to our kings, our chief men, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
Dan. 9
:9
9:9
To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;
Dan. 9
:10
9:10
And we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in His instruction, which He set before us through the hand of His servants the prophets.
Dan. 9
:11
9:11
Indeed, all Israel has transgressed Your law,
to the point of even turning away so as not to obey Your voice; thus the
acurse has been poured out upon us, the very oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him.
Dan. 9
:12
9:12
And He has confirmed His words which He
aspoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us great ill; for under all heaven there has not been done anything like that which
bhas been done in Jerusalem.
Dan. 9
:13
9:13
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this ill has come upon us, yet we have not entreated the favor of Jehovah our God by turning from our iniquities and attending to Your truth.
Dan. 9
:14
9:14
Therefore Jehovah has been vigilant with the ill and has brought it upon us, for Jehovah our God is righteous in all the deeds that He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.
Dan. 9
:15
9:15
And now, O Lord our God, who have
abrought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have made for Yourself a name, as it is this day, we have sinned, we have been wicked.
Dan. 9
:16
9:16
O Lord, in accordance with all the
1manifestations of Your righteousness, may Your anger and Your wrath be turned away, I pray, from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy
amountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us.
Dan. 9
:17
9:17
And now hear, O our God, the prayer of Your servant and his supplications, and cause Your face to
ashine upon Your sanctuary that has been desolated, for the Lord’s sake.
Dan. 9
:18
9:18
O my God, incline Your ear and
ahear; open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city that is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You based upon any righteous doings that we have done, but based upon Your great compassion.
Dan. 9
:19
9:19
O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God; for Your city and Your people are called by Your
own name.
Dan. 9
:20
9:20
And while I was still speaking and praying and
aconfessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God,
Dan. 9
:21
9:21
Even while I was speaking in prayer, the man
1aGabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, reached me in
my utter exhaustion about the time of the
bevening oblation.
Dan. 9
:22
9:22
And he informed
me and talked with me and said, Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding.
Dan. 9
:23
9:23
At the beginning of your supplications the command went forth, and I have come to tell
you, for you are
apreciousness itself. Therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
4.
The contents of the vision — the seventy weeks
vv. 24-27
Dan. 9
:24
9:24
1Seventy weeks are apportioned for your people and for your holy city, to close the transgression, and to
2make an end of sins, and to make
apropitiation for iniquity, and to bring in the
3brighteousness of the ages, and to
4seal up vision and prophet, and to
5canoint the Holy of Holies.
Dan. 9
:25
9:25
Know therefore and comprehend: From the issuing of the decree to
arestore and rebuild Jerusalem until
the time of bMessiah the
cPrince will be
1seven weeks and
1sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with
2street and trench, even in distressful times.
Dan. 9
:26
9:26
And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah will be
1acut off and will have nothing; and the
bpeople of the
2prince who will come will destroy the city and the
csanctuary; and the end of it will be with a flood, and even to the end
there will be 3war; desolations are determined.
Dan. 9
:27
9:27
And 1he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week; and in the
amiddle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease and
2will replace the sacrifice and the oblation with
3babominations of the desolator, even until the complete destruction that has been determined is poured out upon the desolator.
