Daniel 9:1-11:1 1 In the first year of Darius
son of Ahasuerus,
who was of Median descent and who had been
appointed king over the Babylonian
empire –
2 in the first year of his reign
I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books
that, according to the word of the
LORD disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem
were seventy in number.
3 So I turned my attention
to the Lord God
to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
4 I prayed to the
LORD my God, confessing in this way: “O Lord,
great and awesome God who is faithful to his covenant
with those who love him and keep his commandments,
5 we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.
6 We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority
to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors,
and to all the inhabitants
of the land as well.
7 “You are righteous,
O Lord, but we are humiliated this day
– the people
of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.
8 O
LORD, we have been humiliated
– our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors – because we have sinned against you.
9 Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving,
even though we have rebelled against him.
10 We have not obeyed
the
LORD our God by living according to
his laws
that he set before us through his servants the prophets.
11 “All Israel has broken
your law and turned away by not obeying you.
Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened
in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you.
12 He has carried out his threats
against us and our rulers
who were over
us by bringing great calamity on us – what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!
13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify
the
LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom
from your reliable moral standards.
14 The
LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the
LORD our God is just
in all he has done,
and we have not obeyed him.
15 “Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power
and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day – we have sinned and behaved wickedly.
16 O Lord, according to all your justice,
please turn your raging anger
away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors.
17 “So now, our God, accept
the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to
your devastated sanctuary for your own sake.
18 Listen attentively,
my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins
and the city called by your name.
For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you,
but because your compassion is abundant.
19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.”
20 While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the
LORD my God concerning his holy mountain
–
21 yes, while I was still praying,
the man Gabriel, whom I had seen previously
in a vision, was approaching me in my state of extreme weariness,
around the time of the evening offering.
22 He spoke with me, instructing me as follows:
“Daniel, I have now come to impart understanding to you.
23 At the beginning of your requests a message went out, and I have come to convey it to you, for you are of great value in God’s sight.
Therefore consider the message and understand the vision:
24 “Seventy weeks
have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to
rebellion, to bring sin
to completion,
to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual
righteousness, to seal up
the prophetic vision,
and to anoint a most holy place.
25 So know and understand: From the issuing of the command
to restore and rebuild Jerusalem
until an anointed one, a prince arrives,
there will be a period of seven weeks
and sixty-two weeks. It will again be built,
with plaza and moat, but in distressful times.
26 Now after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing.
As for the city and the sanctuary, the people of the coming prince will destroy
them. But his end will come speedily
like a flood.
Until the end of the war that has been decreed there will be destruction.
27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one week.
But in the middle of that week he will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt. On the wing
of abominations will come
one who destroys, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys.”
1 In the third
year of King Cyrus of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel (who was also called Belteshazzar). This message was true and concerned a great war.
He understood the message and gained insight by the vision.
2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks.
3 I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips,
nor did I anoint myself with oil
until the end of those three weeks.
4 On the twenty-fourth day of the first month
I was beside the great river, the Tigris.
5 I looked up
and saw a
man
clothed in linen;
around his waist was a belt made of gold from Upaz.
6 His body resembled yellow jasper,
and his face had an appearance like lightning. His eyes were like blazing torches;
his arms and feet had the gleam of polished bronze. His voice
thundered forth like the sound of a large crowd.
7 Only I, Daniel, saw the vision; the men who were with me did not see it.
On the contrary, they were overcome with fright
and ran away to hide.
8 I alone was left to see this great vision. My strength drained from
me, and my vigor disappeared;
I was without energy.
9 I listened to his voice,
and as I did so
I fell into a trance-like sleep with my face to the ground.
10 Then
a hand touched me and set me on my hands and knees.
11 He said to me, “Daniel, you are of great value.
Understand the words that I am about to
speak to you. So stand up,
for I have now been sent to you.” When he said this
to me, I stood up shaking.
12 Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel, for from the very first day you applied your mind
to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come in response to your words.
13 However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia was opposing me for twenty-one days. But
Michael, one of the leading princes, came to help me, because I was left there
with the kings of Persia.
14 Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to future days.”
15 While he was saying this to me,
I was flat on
the ground and unable to speak.
16 Then
one who appeared to be a human being
was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me, “Sir,
due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength.
17 How, sir, am I able to speak with you?
My strength is gone,
and I am breathless.”
18 Then the one who appeared to be a human being touched me again
and strengthened me.
19 He said to me, “Don’t be afraid, you who are valued.
Peace be to you! Be strong! Be really strong!” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened. I said, “Sir, you may speak now,
for you have given me strength.”
20 He said, “Do you know why I have come to you?
Now I am about to return to engage in battle with the prince of Persia. When I go, the prince of Greece is coming.
21 However, I will first tell you what is written in a dependable book.
(There is no one who strengthens me against these princes,
except Michael your
prince.
1 And in the first year of Darius the Mede, I
stood to strengthen him and to provide protection for him.)
Context (NET) 1 John 2:18-3:6 18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists
have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.
19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained
with us. But
they went out from us
to demonstrate
that all of them do not belong to us.
20 Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
21 I have not written to you that
you do not know the truth, but that
you do know it, and that
no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ
? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.
23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.
24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain
in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
25 Now this
is the promise that he
himself made to
us: eternal life.
26 These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.
27 Now as for you, the anointing
that you received from him
resides
in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his
anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as
it
has taught you, you reside
in him.
28 And now, little children, remain
in him,
so that when
he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you also know
that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered
by him.
1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that
we should be called God’s children – and indeed
we are!
For this reason
the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be
has not yet been revealed. We
know that
whenever
it
is revealed
we will be like him, because
we will see him just as he is.
3 And everyone who has this hope focused
on him purifies
himself, just as Jesus
is pure).
4 Everyone who practices sin
also practices lawlessness;
indeed,
sin is lawlessness.
5 And you know that Jesus
was revealed to take away
sins, and in him there is no sin.
6 Everyone who resides
in him does not sin;
everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.
Context (NET) Psalm 121:1-8 1 A song of ascents.
I look up
toward the hills. From where
does my help come?
2 My help comes from the
Lord,
the Creator
of heaven and earth!
3 May he not allow your foot to slip! May your protector
not sleep!
4 Look! Israel’s protector
does not sleep or slumber!
5 The
Lord is your protector; the
Lord is the shade at your right hand.
6 The sun will not harm you by day, or the moon by night.
7 The
Lord will protect you from all harm; he will protect your life.
8 The
Lord will protect you in all you do,
now and forevermore.
Context (NET) Proverbs 28:27-28 27 The one who gives to the poor will not lack,
but whoever shuts his eyes to them
will receive
many curses.
28 When the wicked gain control,
people
hide themselves,
but when they perish,
the righteous increase.
Context (NET)
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