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Daniel 9

1 In the first year of Darius the son ofWho was also called Astyages.Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over theFor Cyrus led with ambition, and went about wars in other countries, and therefore Darius had the title of the kingdom, even though Cyrus was king in effect.realm of the Chaldeans;

2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood byFor even though he was an excellent Prophet, yet he daily increased in knowledge by the reading of the scriptures.books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, toHe does not speak of that ordinary prayer, which he used in his house three times a day, but of a rare and vehement prayer, lest their sins should cause God to delay the time of their deliverance prophesied by Jeremiah.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, theThat is, has all power in yourself to execute your terrible judgments against obstinate sinners, as you are rich in mercy to comfort those who obey your word and love you.great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

5 We haue sinned, and haue committed iniquitie and haue done wickedly, yea, we haue rebelled, and haue departed from thy precepts, and from thy iudgements.

6 For we would not obey thy seruants the Prophets, which spake in thy Name to our Kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

7 O Lord,He shows that whenever God punishes, he does it for just cause: and thus the godly never accuse him of rigour as the wicked do, but acknowledge that in themselves there is just cause why he should so treat them.righteousness [belongeth] unto 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 are] near, and [that are] far 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 [belongeth] confusion of face, to ourHe does not excuse the kings because of their authority, but prays chiefly for them as the chief occasions of these great plagues.kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

9 Yet compassion and forgiuenesse is in the Lorde our God, albeit we haue rebelled against him.

10 Neither have we obeyed theHe shows that they rebel against God, who do not serve him according to his commandment and word.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 theAs in (Deu_27:15), or the curse confirmed by an oath.curse is poured upon us, and the oath that [is] written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

12 And he hath confirmed his wordes, which he spake against vs, and against our iudges that iudged vs, by bringing vpon vs a great plague: for vnder the whole heauen hath not bene the like, as hath bene brought vpon Ierusalem.

13 All this plague is come vpon vs, as it is written in the Lawe of Moses: yet made we not our prayer before the Lorde our God, that we might turne from our iniquities and vnderstand thy trueth.

14 Therefore hath the Lord made ready the plague, and brought it vpon vs: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we would not heare his voyce.

15 And nowe, O Lorde our God, that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mightie hand, and hast gotten thee renoume, as appeareth this day, we haue sinned, we haue done wickedly.

16 O Lord, according to all thyThat is, according to all your merciful promises and the performance of them.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 become] a reproach to all [that are] about us.

17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face toShow yourself favourable.shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for theThat is, for your Christ's sake, in whom you will accept all of our prayers.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 ourDeclaring that the godly flee only to God's mercies, and renounce their own works, when they seek for remission of their sins.righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord,Thus he could not content himself with any vehemency of words: for he was so led with a fervent zeal, considering God's promise made to the city in respect of his Church, and for the advancement of God's glory.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 was speaking and praying, and confessing my sinne, and the sinne of my people Israel, and did present my supplication before the Lord my God, for the holy Mountaine of my God,

21 Yea, while I was speaking in prayer, euen the man Gabriel, whome I had seene before in the vision, came flying, and touched mee about the time of the euening oblation.

22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and sayd, O Daniel, I am now come forth to giue thee knowledge and vnderstanding.

23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commaundement came foorth, and I am come to shewe thee, for thou art greatly beloued: therefore vnderstande the matter and consider the vision.

24 SeventyHe alludes to Jeremiah's prophecy, who prophesied that their captivity would be seventy years: but now God's mercy would exceed his judgment seven times as much, which would be 490 years, even until the coming of Christ, and so then it would continue forever.weeks are determined uponMeaning Daniel's nation, over whom he was careful.thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish theTo show mercy and to put sin out of remembrance.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, [that] fromThat is, from the time that Cyrus gave them permission to depart.the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] sevenThese weeks make forty-nine years, of which forty-six are referred to the time of the building of the temple, and three to the laying of the foundation.weeks, andCounting from the sixth year of Darius, who gave the second commandment for the building of the temple are sixty-two weeks, which make 434 years, which comprehend the time from the building of the temple until the baptism of Christ.threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

26 And after threescore and twoIn this week of the seventy, will Christ come and preach and suffer death.weeks shall Messiah be cut off, butHe will seem to have no beauty, nor to be of any estimation; (Isa_53:2).not for himself: and the people of theMeaning Titus, Vespasians's son, who would come and destroy both the temple, and the people, without any hope of recovery.prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

27 And heBy the preaching of the Gospel he affirmed his promise, first to the Jews, and after to the Gentiles.shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation toChrist accomplished this by his death and resurrection.cease,Meaning that Jerusalem and the sanctuary would be utterly destroyed because of their rebellion against God, and their idolatry: or as some read, that the plague will be so great, that they will all be astonished at them.and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

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