Verse 3
Daniel 9:3
Bible in Basic English
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And turning my face to the Lord God (Elohim), I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his Grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.
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
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In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over...
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In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by th...
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And turning my face to the Lord God (Elohim), I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, goin...
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And I made prayer to the Lord my God (Elohim), putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the gr...
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We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orde...
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6
We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and ou...
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O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and th...
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8
O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.
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9
With the Lord our God (Elohim) are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;
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10
And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God (Elohim) to go in the way of his laws which...
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11
And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice:...
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12
And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges,...
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13
As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for...
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14
So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God (Elohi...
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15
And now, O Lord our God (Elohim), who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand a...
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16
O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town...
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And now, give ear, O our God (Elohim), to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, a...
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18
O my God (Elohim), let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we hav...
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19
O Lord, give ear; O Lord, have forgiveness; O Lord, take note and do; let there be no more waiting;...
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And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Is...
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21
Even while I was still in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at first when my we...
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And teaching me and talking to me he said, O Daniel, I have come now to give you wisdom.
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At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are...
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Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and...
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Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusa...
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And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put w...
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And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the we...
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