Daniel 9
Dios Habla Hoy
Daniel ora por su pueblo
9 »Darío, hijo de Asuero, de la raza de los medos, gobernaba el reino de los caldeos. 2 En el primer año de su reinado, yo, Daniel, estaba estudiando en el libro del profeta Jeremías acerca de los setenta años que debían pasar para que se cumpliera la ruina de Jerusalén, según el Señor se lo había dicho al profeta. 3 Y dirigí mis oraciones y súplicas a Dios el Señor, ayunando y vistiéndome con ropas ásperas, y sentándome en ceniza. 4 Oré al Señor mi Dios, y le hice esta confesión:
»“Señor, Dios grande y poderoso, que siempre cumples tus promesas y das pruebas de tu amor a los que te aman y cumplen tus mandamientos: 5 hemos pecado y cometido maldad; hemos hecho lo malo; hemos vivido sin tomarte en cuenta; hemos abandonado tus mandamientos y decretos. 6 No hemos hecho caso a tus siervos los profetas, los cuales hablaron en tu nombre a nuestros reyes, jefes y antepasados, y a todo el pueblo de Israel. 7 Tú, Señor, eres justo, pero nosotros los judíos nos sentimos hoy avergonzados; tanto los que viven en Jerusalén como los otros israelitas, los de cerca y los de lejos, que viven en los países adonde tú los arrojaste por haberse rebelado contra ti. 8 Nosotros, Señor, lo mismo que nuestros reyes, jefes y antepasados, nos sentimos avergonzados porque hemos pecado contra ti. 9 Pero de ti, Dios nuestro, es propio el ser compasivo y perdonar. Nosotros nos hemos rebelado contra ti 10 y no te hemos escuchado, Señor y Dios nuestro, ni hemos obedecido las enseñanzas que nos diste por medio de tus siervos los profetas. 11 Todo Israel desobedeció tus enseñanzas y se negó a obedecer tus órdenes; por eso han caído sobre nosotros la maldición y el juramento que están escritos en la ley de Moisés, tu siervo, porque hemos pecado contra ti. 12 Tú, al enviarnos una calamidad tan grande, has cumplido la amenaza que nos hiciste a nosotros y a los que nos gobernaron; pues jamás ha habido en el mundo nada comparable al castigo que ha caído sobre Jerusalén. 13 Todo este mal ha venido sobre nosotros, tal como está escrito en la ley de Moisés; pero nosotros no te hemos buscado, Señor y Dios nuestro, ni hemos abandonado nuestras maldades, ni hemos seguido tu verdad. 14 Por eso, Señor, has preparado este mal y lo has enviado sobre nosotros; porque tú, Señor y Dios nuestro, eres justo en todo lo que haces; pero nosotros no quisimos escucharte.
15 »”Señor y Dios nuestro, tú mostraste tu gran poder al sacar de Egipto a tu pueblo, haciendo así famoso tu nombre desde aquellos días hasta hoy; pero nosotros hemos pecado y hemos hecho lo malo. 16 Señor, sabemos que eres bondadoso. Por favor, aparta de Jerusalén tu ira y furor, porque ella es tu ciudad, tu monte santo. Toda la gente de las naciones vecinas se burla de Jerusalén y de tu pueblo, por culpa de nuestros pecados y de los de nuestros antepasados. 17 Dios nuestro, escucha la oración y las súplicas de este siervo tuyo; por tu nombre, Señor, mira con amor la triste situación en que ha quedado tu templo. 18 Atiende, Dios mío, y escucha; mira con atención nuestra ruina y la de la ciudad donde se invoca tu nombre. No te hacemos nuestras súplicas confiados en la rectitud de nuestra vida, sino en tu gran compasión. 19 ¡Señor, Señor! ¡Escúchanos, perdónanos! ¡Atiéndenos, Señor, y ven a ayudarnos! ¡Por ti mismo, Dios mío, y por tu ciudad y tu pueblo, que invocan tu nombre, no tardes!”
Profecía de las setenta semanas
20 »Yo seguí orando y confesando mis pecados y los de mi pueblo Israel, y presentando mis súplicas al Señor mi Dios por su monte santo. 21 Mientras yo oraba, Gabriel, que se me había aparecido antes en la visión, vino volando a donde yo estaba. Era casi la hora de ofrecer a Dios el sacrificio de la tarde. 22 Y me dijo:
»“Daniel, he venido ahora para hacerte entender estas cosas. 23 En cuanto comenzaste a orar, Dios te respondió. Yo he venido para darte su respuesta, porque Dios te quiere mucho. Ahora, pues, pon mucha atención a lo siguiente, para que entiendas la visión:
24 »”Setenta semanas han de pasar
sobre tu pueblo y tu ciudad santa
para poner fin a la rebelión y al pecado,
para obtener el perdón por la maldad
y establecer la justicia para siempre,
para que se cumplan la visión y la profecía
y se consagre el Santísimo.
25 Debes saber y entender esto:
Desde el momento en que se ordene
restaurar y reconstruir Jerusalén,
hasta la llegada del jefe consagrado,
han de pasar siete semanas,
y las calles y murallas reconstruidas de Jerusalén
durarán sesenta y dos semanas,
pero serán tiempos de mucha angustia.
26 Después de las sesenta y dos semanas
le quitarán la vida al jefe consagrado.
Jerusalén y el templo serán destruidos
por la gente de un rey que vendrá.
El fin llegará de pronto, como una inundación,
y hasta el fin seguirán la guerra y las destrucciones
que han sido determinadas.
27 Durante una semana más,
él hará un pacto con mucha gente,
pero a mitad de la semana
pondrá fin a los sacrificios y las ofrendas.
Y un horrible sacrilegio se cometerá
ante el altar de los sacrificios,
hasta que la destrucción determinada
caiga sobre el autor de estos horrores.”»
Daniel 9
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Daniel’s Prayer
9 In the first year of Darius,(A) the son of Ahasuerus, a Mede by birth, who was ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans: 2 In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be 70.(B) 3 So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.(C)
4 I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed:
Ah, Lord—the great and awe-inspiring God(D) who keeps His gracious covenant(E) with those who love Him(F) and keep His commands(G)— 5 we have sinned,(H) done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled,(I) and turned away from Your commands and ordinances.(J) 6 We have not listened to Your servants the prophets,(K) who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.
7 Lord, righteousness belongs to You,(L) but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel—those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where You have dispersed them because of the disloyalty they have shown toward You. 8 Lord, public shame(M) belongs to us, our kings, our leaders, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.(N) 9 Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord our God, though we have rebelled against Him 10 and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by following His instructions that He set before us through His servants(O) the prophets.
11 All Israel has broken Your law and turned away,(P) refusing to obey You. The promised curse[a] written in the law of Moses,(Q) the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against Him. 12 He has carried out His words(R) that He spoke against us and against our rulers[b](S) by bringing on us so great a disaster that nothing like what has been done to Jerusalem has ever been done(T) under all of heaven. 13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses,(U) all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not appeased(V) the Lord our God by turning from our iniquities and paying attention to Your truth.(W) 14 So the Lord kept the disaster in mind and brought it on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all He has done. But we have not obeyed Him.
15 Now, Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand(X) and made Your name renowned(Y) as it is this day, we have sinned, we have acted wickedly. 16 Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, may Your anger and wrath(Z) turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain;(AA) for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of ridicule to all those around us.
17 Therefore, our God, hear the prayer and the petitions of Your servant. Show Your favor(AB) to Your desolate sanctuary(AC) for the Lord’s sake. 18 Listen,[c] my God, and hear. Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city called by Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You based on our righteous acts, but based on Your abundant compassion. 19 Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, listen and act! My God, for Your own sake, do not delay,(AD) because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.
The 70 Weeks of Years
20 While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel,(AE) and presenting my petition before Yahweh my God concerning the holy mountain of my God— 21 while I was praying, Gabriel,(AF) the man I had seen in the first vision,(AG) came to me in my extreme weariness, about the time of the evening offering.(AH) 22 He gave me this explanation: “Daniel, I’ve come now to give you understanding.(AI) 23 At the beginning of your petitions an answer went out, and I have come to give it, for you are treasured by God.(AJ) So consider the message and understand the vision:(AK)
24 Seventy weeks[d] are decreed(AL)
about your people and your holy city—
to bring the rebellion to an end,
to put a stop to sin,
to wipe away iniquity,
to bring in everlasting righteousness,(AM)
to seal up vision and prophecy,
and to anoint the most holy place.
25 Know and understand this:
From the issuing of the decree
to restore and rebuild Jerusalem(AN)
until Messiah(AO) the Prince[e]
will be seven weeks and 62 weeks.[f]
It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,
but in difficult times.
26 After those 62 weeks[g]
the Messiah will be cut off(AP)
and will have nothing.
The people of the coming prince
will destroy the city(AQ) and the sanctuary.
The[h] end will come with a flood,(AR)
and until the end there will be[i] war;
desolations are decreed.
27 He will make a firm covenant[j]
with many for one week,[k]
but in the middle of the week
he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.
And the abomination of desolation(AS)
will be on a wing(AT) of the temple[l][m]
until the decreed destruction(AU)
is poured out on the desolator.”
Footnotes
- Daniel 9:11 Lit The curse and the oath
- Daniel 9:12 Lit against rulers who ruled us
- Daniel 9:18 Lit Stretch out Your ear
- Daniel 9:24 = 490 years
- Daniel 9:25 Or until an anointed one, a prince
- Daniel 9:25 = 49 years and 434 years
- Daniel 9:26 = 434 years
- Daniel 9:26 Lit Its, or His
- Daniel 9:26 Or end of a
- Daniel 9:27 Or will enforce a covenant
- Daniel 9:27 = 7 years
- Daniel 9:27 LXX; MT reads of abominations
- Daniel 9:27 Or And the desolator will be on the wing of abominations, or And the desolator will come on the wings of monsters (or of horror); Hb obscure
Daniel 9
King James Version
9 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by 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, to 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, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7 O Lord, 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 our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
10 Neither have we obeyed the 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 the 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 words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
14 Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 O Lord, according to all thy 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 to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the 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 our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O 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 whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the 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 from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the 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 he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, 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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