1 In die eerste jaar van Dar¡us, die seun van Ahasv,ros, uit die geslag van die Meders, wat koning gemaak was oor die koninkryk van die Chaldeërs,
2 in die eerste jaar van sy regering het ek, Daniël, in die boeke gemerk dat die getal jare waaroor die woord van die HERE tot die profeet Jeremia gekom het met betrekking tot die puinhope van Jerusalem, sewentig volle jare was.
3 En ek het my aangesig tot die Here God gerig om met vas, en in roukleed en as, my aan gebed en smekinge te wy.
4 En ek het tot die HERE my God gebid en belydenis gedoen en gesê: Ag, Here, grote en gedugte God, wat die verbond en die goedertierenheid hou vir die wat Hom liefhet en sy gebooie onderhou,
5 ons het gesondig en verkeerd gedoen en goddeloos gehandel en in opstand gekom en van u gebooie en verordeninge afgewyk.
6 En ons het nie geluister na u knegte, die profete, wat in u Naam gespreek het tot ons konings, ons owerstes en ons vaders en tot die hele volk van die land nie.
7 Aan U, Here, kom die geregtigheid toe, maar aan ons beskaming van die aangesig soos dit vandag is, aan die manne van Juda en aan die inwoners van Jerusalem en aan die hele Israel, die wat naby en die wat ver is in al die lande waarheen U hulle verdryf het, oor hulle ontrou wat hulle teen U begaan het.
8 Here, aan ons kom toe beskaming van die aangesig, aan ons konings, aan ons owerstes en aan ons vaders, omdat ons teen U gesondig het.
9 By die Here onse God is barmhartigheid en vergewing, want ons het teen Hom opgestaan
10 en na die stem van die HERE onse God nie geluister om te wandel in sy wette wat Hy ons deur die diens van sy knegte, die profete, voorgehou het nie.
11 Maar die hele Israel het u wet oortree en afgewyk deurdat hulle nie na u stem geluister het nie; daarom is die vloek en die eed oor ons uitgestort wat geskrywe is in die wet van Moses, die kneg van God, want ons het teen Hom gesondig.
12 En Hy het sy woorde in vervulling laat gaan wat Hy oor ons gespreek het en oor ons rigters wat ons bestuur het, deur groot onheil oor ons te bring wat onder die ganse hemel nie gebeur het soos in Jerusalem nie;
13 soos in die wet van Moses geskrywe is -- al hierdie onheil het oor ons gekom, en ons het die aangesig van die HERE onse God nie om genade gesmeek deur ons te bekeer van ons ongeregtighede en ag te gee op u waarheid nie.
14 Daarom was die HERE wakker oor die onheil, om dit oor ons te bring; want die HERE onse God is regverdig by al sy werke wat Hy doen, maar ons het nie na sy stem geluister nie.
15 Nou dan, o Here onse God wat u volk uit Egipteland met 'n sterke hand uitgelei en vir U 'n Naam gemaak het soos dit vandag is, ons het gesondig, ons was goddeloos.
16 o Here, laat tog volgens al u geregtigheid u toorn en u grimmigheid van u stad Jerusalem, u heilige berg, afgewend word, want om ons sondes en die ongeregtighede van ons vaders ontwil is Jerusalem en u volk 'n voorwerp van versmading vir almal rondom ons.
17 Hoor dan nou, onse God, na die gebed van u kneg en na sy smekinge, en laat ter wille van die Here u aangesig skyn oor u heiligdom wat woes lê.
18 Neig u oor, my God, en hoor, open u oë en aanskou ons verwoeste plekke en die stad waar u Naam oor uitgeroep is; want nie op grond van ons geregtigheid werp ons ons smekinge voor u aangesig neer nie, maar op grond van u grote barmhartigheid.
19 Here, hoor! Here, vergeef! Here, merk op en doen dit, vertoef tog nie, om U ontwil, my God; want u Naam is oor u stad en u volk uitgeroep.
20 Terwyl ek nog spreek en bid en my sonde en die sonde van my volk Israel bely en my smeking voor die aangesig van die HERE my God neerwerp, ter wille van die heilige berg van my God,
21 terwyl ek nog spreek in die gebed, het die man Gabriël wat ek, uitgeput van vermoeienis, 'n vorige keer in die gesig gesien het, na my gekom omtrent die tyd van die aandspysoffer.
22 En hy het my onderrig en met my gespreek en gesê: Daniël, nou het ek heengegaan om jou insig te gee.
23 By die begin van jou smekinge het 'n woord uitgegaan, en ek het gekom om dit mee te deel, want jy is 'n geliefde man; gee dan ag op die woord en verstaan die gesig.
24 Sewentig sewetalle is oor jou volk en jou heilige stad bepaal, om die goddeloosheid te voleindig en om die maat van die sondes vol te maak en om die ongeregtigheid te versoen en om ewige geregtigheid aan te bring en om gesig en profeet te beseël en om wat hoogheilig is, te salf.
25 Nou moet jy weet en verstaan: van die uitgang van die woord af om Jerusalem te herstel en op te bou tot op 'n Gesalfde, 'n Vors, is sewe sewetalle; en twee en sestig sewetalle lank sal dit herstel en opgebou word, met pleine en slote, maar in tye van benoudheid.
26 En n die twee en sestig sewetalle sal 'n Gesalfde uitgeroei word, maar sonder iets vir Hom; en die volk van 'n vors wat sal kom, sal die stad en die heiligdom verwoes, maar sy einde sal met 'n oorstroming wees, en tot die einde toe sal dit oorlog wees, vasbeslote verwoestings.
27 En hy sal een week lank met baie 'n sterk verbond sluit, en gedurende die helfte van die week sal hy slagoffer en spysoffer laat ophou; en op die vleuel van gruwels sal daar 'n verwoester wees, en wel tot aan die einde; en wat vas besluit is, sal oor wat woes is, uitgestort word.
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 Chaldaeans;
2 In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.
3 And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.
4 And I made prayer to the Lord my God, putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the great God, greatly to be feared. keeping your agreement and mercy with those who have love for you and do your orders;
5 We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:
6 We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land.
7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.
8 O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.
9 With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;
10 And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets.
11 And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.
12 And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.
13 As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.
14 So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.
15 And now, O Lord our God, who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and made a great name for yourself even to this day; we are sinners, we have done evil.
16 O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.
17 And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord.
18 O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.
19 O Lord, give ear; O Lord, have forgiveness; O Lord, take note and do; let there be no more waiting; for the honour of your name, O my God, because your town and your people are named by your name.
20 And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Israel before the Lord, and requesting grace from the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Even while I was still in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at first when my weariness was great, put his hand on me about the time of the evening offering.
22 And teaching me and talking to me he said, O Daniel, I have come now to give you wisdom.
23 At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you.
24 Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.
25 Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork.
26 And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.
27 And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.