Verse 3

Daniel 9:3

World Messianic Bible

3 I set my face to the Lord God (Elohim), to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וָ/אֶתְּנָ֣/ה אֶת פָּנַ֗/י אֶל אֲדֹנָ/י֙ הָֽ/אֱלֹהִ֔ים לְ/בַקֵּ֥שׁ תְּפִלָּ֖ה וְ/תַחֲנוּנִ֑ים בְּ/צ֖וֹם וְ/שַׂ֥ק וָ/אֵֽפֶר

English Translation

And I gave my face to my Lord God to seek prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

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Chapter 9 Context

1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king o... Focus ↗

2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about whic... Focus ↗

3 I set my face to the Lord God (Elohim), to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth...

4 I prayed to Yahweh my God (Elohim), and made confession, and said, “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful... Focus ↗

5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning a... Focus ↗

6 We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes,... Focus ↗

7 “Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Juda... Focus ↗

8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we... Focus ↗

9 To the Lord our God (Elohim) belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him. Focus ↗

10 We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our God (Elohim)’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by hi... Focus ↗

11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. “Th... Focus ↗

12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by brin... Focus ↗

13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet have we not entreated the fa... Focus ↗

14 Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God (Elohim) is rig... Focus ↗

15 “Now, Lord our God (Elohim), who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand... Focus ↗

16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away f... Focus ↗

17 “Now therefore, our God (Elohim), listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and ca... Focus ↗

18 My God (Elohim), turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city whic... Focus ↗

19 Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God (Elohim), bec... Focus ↗

20 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presen... Focus ↗

21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning... Focus ↗

22 He instructed me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, “I have now come to give you wisdom and unde... Focus ↗

23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you ar... Focus ↗

24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make... Focus ↗

25 “Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerus... Focus ↗

26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the... Focus ↗

27 He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sac... Focus ↗

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