1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
2 in the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by the books that the number of the years, whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishment of the desolations of Jerusalem, was seventy years.
3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;
4 and I prayed unto Jehovah my God, and made my confession, and said, Alas Lord! the great and terrible *God, keeping covenant and loving-kindness with them that love him, and that keep his commandments:
5 we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy commandments and from thine ordinances.
6 And we have not hearkened unto 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 Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, 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, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee.
8 O Lord, unto us is confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
9 With the Lord our God are mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against him;
10 and we have not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us through his servants the prophets.
11 And all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside so as not to listen unto thy voice. And the curse hath been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God: for we have sinned against him.
12 And he hath performed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil; so that there hath not been done under the whole heaven as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us; yet we besought not Jehovah our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
14 And Jehovah hath watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he hath done; and we have not hearkened unto his voice.
15 -And now, O Lord our God, who broughtest thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and hast made thee a name, as it is this day, -we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 Lord, according to all thy righteousnesses, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; for because of our sins, and because of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people {are become} a reproach to all round about us.
17 And now, our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
18 Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies.
19 Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, 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 whilst I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 whilst I was yet speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed {me}, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am now come forth to make thee skilful of understanding.
23 At the beginning of thy supplications the word went forth, and I am come to declare {it}; for thou art one greatly beloved. Therefore consider the word, and have understanding in the vision:
24 Seventy weeks are apportioned out upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal the vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.
25 Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times.
26 And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war, -the desolations determined.
27 And he shall confirm a covenant with the many {for} one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and because of the protection of abominations {there shall be} a desolator, even until that the consumption and what is determined shall be poured out upon the desolate.
1 玛代人亚哈随鲁的儿子大利乌被立为王， 统治迦勒底国的第一年，
2 就是他作王的第一年， 我但以理从经书上留意到耶和华临到耶利米先知的话， 指出耶路撒冷荒废的年数必满七十年。
3 于是我转向主 神， 禁食， 披麻蒙灰， 借祈祷和恳求寻求他。
4 我向耶和华我的 神祷告、认罪， 说： "主啊！ 伟大可畏的 神， 你向那些爱你， 遵守你诫命的人守约施慈爱。
5 我们犯了罪， 行了不义， 作了恶， 背叛了你， 偏离了你的诫命典章；
6 没有听从你的仆人众先知， 他们奉你的名向我们的君王、领袖、列祖和国中所有的人民说话。
7 主啊！ 你是公义的； 我们满面羞愧， 正如今日的光景； 我们犹大人、耶路撒冷的居民， 和被你赶逐到远近各地的以色列众人， 都因对你不忠而满面羞愧。
8 耶和华啊！ 我们和我们的君王、领袖、列祖， 都满面羞愧， 因为我们得罪了你。
9 虽然我们背叛了主我们的 神， 他仍是满有怜悯和饶恕。
10 我们没有听从耶和华我们 神的话， 没有遵行他借着他的仆人众先知向我们颁布的律法。
11 以色列众人都违背了你的律法， 偏离了你， 不听从你的话， 因此， 神的仆人摩西的律法书上所记载的咒诅和审判， 都倾倒在我们身上； 我们实在得罪了 神。
12 他实现了他的预言， 按着他向我们和那些治理我们的官长所说过的话， 使大灾祸临到我们身上； 耶路撒冷所遇的灾祸是在普天之下从未发生过的。
13 这一切灾祸是按着摩西的律法书上所记载的， 临到了我们身上， 但我们仍没有恳求耶和华我们的 神施恩， 使我们离开罪孽， 明白你的真理。
14 所以耶和华留意使这灾祸临到我们身上， 因为耶和华我们的 神在他所行的一切事上都是公义的， 我们却没有听从他的话。
15 主我们的 神啊！ 你曾用强而有力的手把你的子民从埃及地领出来， 使你自己得了名， 好像今天一样。现在， 我们犯了罪， 作了恶。
16 主啊！ 求你按着你的一切公义， 使你的怒气和忿怒转离你的城耶路撒冷， 就是你的圣山； 因我们的罪和我们列祖的罪孽的缘故， 耶路撒冷和你的子民成了在我们四围的人羞辱的对象。
17 现在， 我们的 神啊！ 求你垂听你仆人的祷告和恳求； 主啊！ 为了你自己的缘故， 使你的脸光照你这荒凉了的圣所。
18 我的 神啊！ 求你侧耳而听， 睁眼垂顾我们的荒凉， 和那称为你名下的城； 因为我们向你恳求， 并不是因着自己的义， 而是因着你的大怜悯。
19 主啊！ 求你垂听。主啊！ 求你赦免。主啊！ 求你应允而行。我的 神啊！ 为了你自己的缘故， 求你不要耽延。因为你的城和你的子民都是称为你名下的。"
20 我还在说话、祷告、承认我的罪和我同胞以色列人的罪， 为我 神的圣山， 向耶和华我的 神恳求的时候；
21 我还在祷告说话的时候， 我先前在异象中所见的那位样貌像人的加百列， 约在献晚祭的时候， 快速地飞（"快速地飞"原文意思难确定， 或译： "在精疲力竭时"）到我面前来。
22 他向我解释， 说： "但以理啊！ 现在我来， 要使你有智慧， 有聪明。
23 你开始恳求的时候， 就有命令发出。因为你是大蒙眷爱的， 所以我来告诉你； 你要留意这信息， 明白这异象。
24 "为你的同胞和你的圣城， 已经定了七十个七， 要结束过犯， 终止罪恶， 遮盖罪孽， 引进永义， 封住异象和预言， 并且膏抹至圣所（"至圣所"或译： "至圣者"）。
25 你要知道， 也要明白， 从发出命令恢复和重建耶路撒冷， 直到受膏君的时候， 必有七个七； 又有六十二个七（"必有七个七； 又有六十二个七"或译： "必有七个七和六十二个七"）， 耶路撒冷连广场和濠沟， 都必重新建造起来； 那是一段困苦的时期。
26 六十二个七以后， 受膏者必被剪除， 一无所有（"一无所有"或译： "不再存在"）； 那将要来的领袖的人民必毁灭这城和圣所。结局必像洪水而来； 必有争战直到末了； 荒凉的事已经定了。
27 一七之内， 他必和许多人坚立盟约； 一七之半， 他必使献祭和供物终止； 他必在殿里（"殿里"原文作"翼上"）； 设立那使地荒凉的可憎的像（"可憎的像"原文是复数）， 直到指定的结局倾倒在那造成荒凉的人身上。"