Daniel 9 דניאל ט׳

In the first year of Darius the son of Achashverosh of the seed of Madai, who was crowned over the kingdom of the Kasdim [(at the death of Belshazzar [viz. 6:1],

in the first year of his reign, I Daniel, considered the accounts of the number of years [(for the redemption from the Babylonian exile)], of which the L-rd spoke to Jeremiah the prophet [viz. Jeremiah 29:10], [(that redemption to take place)] upon the completion of seventy years of [the ascendancy of Bavel] over the ruins of Jerusalem.

And I set my face to the L-rd G-d to seek [to intercede with] prayer and supplications; with fasting, sack, and ashes.

And I prayed to the L-rd my G-d, and I made confession [(over the sin of my people)]. And I said: I beseech You, My L-rd, the great and awesome G-d, keeper of the covenant and of the lovingkindness to His lovers and to the keepers of His mitzvoth.

We have sinned and transgressed and done evil and rebelled and turned away from Your mitzvoth and from Your judgments.

And we did not pay heed to Your servants, the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our leaders, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

Yours, O L-rd, is the righteousness [i.e., You are right in the judgments and the punishments that You have brought upon us], and ours is the shame-facedness [i.e., it is fitting that we be ashamed over what is happening to us], as [we see] this day — [(what is happening)] to the men of Judah and the dwellers of Jerusalem and to all of Israel, the near and the far, in all the lands where You cast them for their faithlessness to You.

O L-rd, ours is the shame-facedness, for our kings, for our leaders, and for our fathers, (for) what we have sinned against You.

The mercies and the pardons are to be ascribed to the L-rd our G-d [(for not having destroyed us)], for we have rebelled against Him.

And we did not pay heed to the voice of the L-rd our G-d to walk in His teachings that He placed before us by the hand of His servants, the prophets.

And all of Israel transgressed Your Torah and turned away, not to heed Your voice, and there overtook us the curse and the oath written in the Torah of Moses, the servant of G-d [viz. Leviticus 26:14, etc.]

And He fulfilled His word which He spoke concerning us and concerning our judges who judged us, to bring upon us a great evil, which had not been wrought under all the heavens, as has been wrought in Jerusalem.

As written in the Torah of Moses, all this evil has come upon us. And we did not entreat the L-rd to [help us] to repent of our transgressions and to grow wise in Your truth.

And the L-rd hastened with the evil and He brought it upon us. For the L-rd our G-d is righteous in all of His acts which He performs — but we did not heed His voice.

And now, O L-rd, our G-d, who took out Your people from the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and made for Yourself a [great] name as of this day, [we confess that] we have sinned [and] done evil.

O L-rd, in all of Your righteousness, let Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city, Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. For in our sins and in the transgressions of our father, Jerusalem and Your people have become a [target of] insult to all who are around us.

And now, hear our G-d, the prayer of Your servant and his supplications, and cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate Temple, for the sake of [the name of] "the L-rd," [(which is linked with Your Temple, viz. [Exodus 15:17])].

Incline, O G-d, Your ear, and hear; open Your eyes and see, our desolation and the city upon which Your name is called. For not upon our righteousness do we cast our supplications before You, but upon Your many mercies.

O L-rd, hear [our supplications]; O L-rd, forgive [our sins]; O L-rd, listen [to our cries], and do [what we request of You]; do not delay. For You, my G-d. for Your name is called upon Your city and upon Your people.

And while I was yet speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and casting my plaint before the L-rd my G-d for the mountain of the Temple of my G-d,

And while I was yet speaking in prayer, the man, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision in the beginning [(in the days of Belshazzar)], came flying (and) touched me at the time of the evening offering.

And he made me understand, and he spoke with me. And he said: I have now gone forth to teach you understanding.

In the beginning of your supplications the word [of truth] went forth [from the L-rd], and I have come to tell (it to you), for you are desirable [to the L-rd]. And consider the thing and understand the vision.

Seventy sevens [i.e., 490 years] have been decreed upon your people and upon your holy city [(from the destruction of the first Temple in the days of Tzidkiyahu until the destruction of the second Temple — seventy years in the Babylonian exile and four hundred twenty in the second Temple —)], to consummate [purging of] the offense and to end and atone [their] transgressions [(in the exile of Titus and in subjugation)], in order to bring eternal righteousness and to consummate [the burdens of] vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies [(the ark, the altars, and the holy vessels, which will be brought to them by the king, Messiah.)]

And know and understand from this word that has gone forth, to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem. [From the destruction of the first Temple] until [the coming of the anointed prince [(Koresh, king of Paras [viz. Isaiah 45:1])] seven sevens [i.e., seven shemitah periods will elapse]. And for sixty-two sevens [(434 years)], [the city] will be restored and rebuilt, with its streets and its entrenchments. And they will be troubled times [(in subservience to the kings of Paras)].

And after the sixty-two sevens, the anointed one [(Agrippas, king of Judah, who reigned at the time of the destruction)] will be cut off and not be. And the city and the Temple will be destroyed by the people [i.e., the legions] of the prince [(Titus)] who comes [against them]. And his end [will be] to be swept away [(by the Messiah)], and until the end of the war [(of Gog and Magog, the city will be a trench of desolation)].

And he [(Titus)] shall forge a covenant [of peace] with the chiefs [of Israel] for one seven-year period]; but in half of that seven he will abolish sacrifice and meal-offering [viz. 8:25]. And on the height of abominations, [he shall place] "the mute [offense" (idolatry, viz. 8:13)]. And it, [(the dominion of abomination, shall endure)] until [the days of the Messiah, when] complete destruction will descend upon "the mute" [i.e., upon idolatry and its worshippers].