3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and
sackcloth, and ashes:
4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and
dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his
commandments;
5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even
by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our
kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7 O Lord, righteousness belongethunto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to
the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that arenear, and
that arefar off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their
trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
8 O Lord, to us belongethconfusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers,
because we have sinned against thee.
9 To the Lord our God belongmercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set
before us by his servants the prophets.
11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy
voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that iswritten in the law of Moses
the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that
judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as
hath been done upon Jerusalem.
13 As it iswritten in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our
prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy
truth.
14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God
isrighteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a
mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done
wickedly.
16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be
turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the
iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are becomea reproach to all that areabout
us.
17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause
thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the
city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our
righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God:
for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
20 And whiles I wasspeaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people
Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Yea, whiles I wasspeaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at
the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give
23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew
thee; for thou artgreatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the
transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring
in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most
Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, thatfrom the going forth of the commandment to restore
and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall beseven weeks, and threescore and
two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the
people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end
thereof shall bewith a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he
shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations
he shall make itdesolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured
upon the desolate.
1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was
called Belteshazzar; and the thing wastrue, but the time appointed waslong: and he understood
the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself
at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river,
which isHiddekel;
5 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins
weregirded with fine gold of Uphaz:
6 His body also waslike the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as
lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his
words like the voice of a multitude.
7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a
great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
8 Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me:
for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
9 Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a
deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.
10 And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and uponthe palms of my
hands.
11 And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto
thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me,
I stood trembling.
12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart
to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for
thy words.
13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael,
one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for
yet the vision isfor manydays.
15 And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became
16 And, behold, onelike the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my
mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows
are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway
there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
18 Then there came again and touched me onelike the appearance of a man, and he strengthened
me,
19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace beunto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And
when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast
strengthened me.
20 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with
the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there isnone that
holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
1 Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, evenI, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
2 And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and
the fourth shall be far richer than theyall: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir
up all against the realm of Grecia.
3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his
will.
4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four
winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his
kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.
5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and oneof his princes; and he shall be strong above
him, and have dominion; his dominion shall bea great dominion.
6 And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the
south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the
power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that
brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in thesetimes.
7 But out of a branch of her roots shall onestand up in his estate, which shall come with an
army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and
shall prevail:
8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, andwith their
precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue moreyears than the king of the
north.
9 So the king of the south shall come into hiskingdom, and shall return into his own land.
10 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one
shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up,
evento his fortress.
11 And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with
him, evenwith the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude
shall be given into his hand.
12 Andwhen he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast
down manyten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it.
13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the
former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.
14 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers
of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.
