¹ In the first^◦ year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made·​·king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans;

² in the first^◦ year of his reign, I^◦, Daniel, understood in the books the number of the years, of which the word of Jehovah was to^▵ Jeremiah the prophet, to fulfill seventy years for the wastings of Jerusalem.

³ And I set my faces to^▵ the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications^◦, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;

⁴ and I prayed to Jehovah my God, and made· my ·confession, and said, I pray^◦ Thee, Lord, the great and fearsome 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 acted·​·wickedly, and have revolted, even^▵ by turning·​·aside from Thy commandments and from Thy judgments.

⁶ Neither have we hearkened to^▵ Thy servants the prophets, who spoke in Thy name to^▵ our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to^▵ all the people of the land.

⁷ To Thee, O Lord, is justice, but to us is shame on the faces, as at this day, to the men^◦ of Judah, and to those who dwell in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, near and far·​·off, in all the lands whither Thou hast expelled them, in their trespass by which they have trespassed against^◦ Thee.

⁸ O Lord, to us belongs shame on the faces, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, that we have sinned against^▵ Thee.

⁹ To the Lord our God belong compassions and pardon, for we have revolted against^◦ Him,

¹⁰ and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk^◦ in His laws, which He put^◦ before us by the hand of His servants the prophets.

¹¹ And all Israel have crossed·​·over Thy law, and by turning·​·aside without obeying Thy voice; and the oath is poured·​·out upon us, and the promise that is written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have sinned against^▵ Him.

¹² And He has raised·​·up His words, which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, to bring upon us great evil; for under all the heavens has not been done as^◦ has been done in Jerusalem.

¹³ As^◦ it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us; and we implored not the face of Jehovah our God, to turn·​·back from our iniquities, and have·​·intelligence in Thy truth.

¹⁴ And Jehovah has watched^◦ over the evil, and brought it over us; for just is Jehovah our God concerning all His deeds which He does, and we obeyed not His voice.

¹⁵ And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought· Thy people ·out from the land of Egypt with a firm hand, and hast made for Thee a name, as this day, we have sinned; we have acted·​·wickedly.

¹⁶ O Lord, according·​·to all Thy justice, I pray^◦ Thee, let Thine anger and Thy fury be turned·​·back from thy city Jerusalem, the mountain of Thy holiness, for in our sins, and in the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

¹⁷ And now, our God, hearken to^▵ the prayer of Thy servant, and to^▵ his supplications^◦, and cause Thy face to give·​·light upon Thy sanctuary that is desolate, because·​·of^◦ the Lord.

¹⁸ O my God, incline Thine ear, and hear; open^◦ Thine eyes, and see our desolations, and the city upon which Thy name is called; for we^◦ do not cause our supplications^◦ to fall before Thee on·​·account·​·of our justice, but^◦ on·​·account·​·of Thy many compassions.

¹⁹ O Lord, hear; O Lord, pardon; O Lord, attend, and do; delay not, for Thine own sake^◦, O my God; for Thy city and Thy people are called by Thy name.

²⁰ And as·​·long·​·as I^◦ was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and causing my supplication^◦ to fall^* before Jehovah my God, for^▵ the holy mountain of my God,

²¹ and I^◦ was still speaking in prayer, and the man^◦ Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being made faint with faintness, touched me about^◦ the time of the evening gift·​·offering.

²² And he understood, and spoke with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come·​·out to make· thee ·intelligent with understanding.

²³ At the beginning of thy supplications^◦ the word went·​·out, and I^◦ have come to tell, for desired art thou^◦; and understand the word, and understand the sight.

²⁴ Seventy weeks are determined on thy people and on thy holy city, to complete the transgression, and to finish the sins, and to atone·​·for iniquity, and to bring eternal justice, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.

²⁵ And know and have·​·intelligence: from the going·​·out of the word to return and to build Jerusalem until the Messiah the Monarch shall be seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks; the avenue shall return and be built, and the ditch^◦, but in the anguish of the times.

²⁶ And after sixty and two weeks shall Messiah be cut·​·off, but not^◦ for Himself; and the people of the monarch that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and her end of it shall be with an overflow, and to^◦ the end of the war desolations are decided.

²⁷ And yet^* He shall make the covenant with many to prevail for one week; but at the half week He shall cause the sacrifice and the gift·​·offering to cease, and on the winged bird of detestable things shall be desolation, and even·​·to the complete end, and decision shall be poured·​·out on the desolation.

¹¹ Has this house, on which My name is called, become a cave of robbers^* in your eyes? Behold, even I^▵ have seen it, says^◦ Jehovah.