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Chapter 9 is Hebrew, in two parts: (i) vv 1-19 — Daniel's penitential prayer over the 70 years of Jeremiah (Jer 25:11, 29:10), modeled on Deuteronomistic confessional prayers; (ii) vv 20-27 — Gabriel's appearance and the 70-weeks-of-years oracle (490 years), one of the most contested calendrical-messianic prophecies in scripture.","sourceLicense":"Best-effort reconstruction; scholarly editions cited; English original to this project","sourceUrl":"(see source-9.json citations)","sourceAccessedVia":"BHS + DJD XVI 2000 + Collins 1993 Hermeneia + Goldingay 1989 WBC + Newsom 2014 OTL + Montgomery 1927 ICC PD + Ziegler-Munnich 1999 + Jubilees per VanderKam DJD XIII + 1 En 93 + 91:11-17 (Apocalypse of Weeks) + 11QMelchizedek + Seder Olam Rabbah ch 28-30","verificationStatus":"best-effort reconstruction; verification pending against BHS apparatus + DJD XVI 2000 DSS apparatus + Ziegler-Munnich 1999 + original codicology","glossaryVersion":"2.69.0","overlayGlossaryVersion":"1.1.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-4-7 (translator)","claude-opus-4-7 (editor)","claude-opus-4-7 (reviewer)"],"reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-06-07T00:00:00+00:00","status":"stable","reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-4-7 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-06-07T00:00:00+00:00","verdicts":[{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:1","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:2","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:3","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. ʾădōnāy + ʾĕlōhīm"],"reasoning":"Hebrew penitential prayer; ʾădōnāy/ʾĕlōhīm rendered consistently with project conventions; Tetragrammaton at 9:10 preserved as small-caps LORD; no lens leakage."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:4","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:5","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:7","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:9","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. ʾădōnāy + ʾĕlōhīm"],"reasoning":"Hebrew penitential prayer; ʾădōnāy/ʾĕlōhīm rendered consistently with project conventions; Tetragrammaton at 9:10 preserved as small-caps LORD; no lens leakage."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:10","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. ʾădōnāy + ʾĕlōhīm"],"reasoning":"Hebrew penitential prayer; ʾădōnāy/ʾĕlōhīm rendered consistently with project conventions; Tetragrammaton at 9:10 preserved as small-caps LORD; no lens leakage."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:11","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. ʾădōnāy + ʾĕlōhīm"],"reasoning":"Hebrew penitential prayer; ʾădōnāy/ʾĕlōhīm rendered consistently with project conventions; Tetragrammaton at 9:10 preserved as small-caps LORD; no lens leakage."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:12","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:13","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:14","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:15","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:17","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. ʾădōnāy + ʾĕlōhīm"],"reasoning":"Hebrew penitential prayer; ʾădōnāy/ʾĕlōhīm rendered consistently with project conventions; Tetragrammaton at 9:10 preserved as small-caps LORD; no lens leakage."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:18","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:19","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:20","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:21","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:22","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:23","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful Hebrew rendering of the prayer + Gabriel oracle."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:24","status":"approve","citations":["Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 352-360; Newsom 2014 OTL; cross-corpus Jubilees 49-year cycles"],"reasoning":"'seventy weeks' (šābūʿīm šibʿīm) preserved literally; does NOT expand to 'weeks of years' on surface; 490-year/10-jubilees correspondence preserved in apparatus."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:25","status":"approve","citations":["BHS atnach apparatus; Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 355-359; Hartman-Di Lella 1978 AB"],"reasoning":"MT atnach punctuation preserved: 7-weeks period distinct from 62-weeks period (TWO anointed-ones); does NOT collapse to KJV/NIV '69-week' single-Messianic period."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:26","status":"approve","citations":["Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 357-360; Newsom 2014 OTL"],"reasoning":"māšîaḥ yikkārēt rendered 'an anointed one shall be cut off' (lowercase, indefinite); does NOT pre-resolve to NT Christological identification."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-9:27","status":"approve","citations":["Bickerman 1937 Der Gott der Makkabäer; Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 360-364; cross-corpus Mt 24:15 + Mk 13:14"],"reasoning":"šiqqūṣ məšōmēm rendered 'abomination(s) of desolation' preserving NT quotation form; correctly identifies Antiochene historical referent in apparatus."}],"glossaryReview":[],"lens-leakage-flags":[],"glossaryReviewNote":"Full glossary review is attached to chapter-1.json (single-home convention to avoid duplication across 12 chapters)."}}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:1", "text": "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—" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:2", "text": "in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years concerning which the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:3", "text": "And I set my face unto the Lord, the Elohim, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:4", "text": "And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, \"Oh, Lord, the great and terrible God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness with those who love him and keep his commandments," },{ "n": 5, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:5", "text": "we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and from your ordinances;" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:6", "text": "neither have we hearkened unto your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:7", "text": "O Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those that are near and those that are far off, through all the countries to which you have driven them, because of their trespass which they have committed against you." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:8", "text": "O LORD, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:9", "text": "To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses; for we have rebelled against him." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:10", "text": "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." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:11", "text": "Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even turning aside, that they should not obey your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of the Elohim has been poured out upon us; for we have sinned against him." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:12", "text": "And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil; for under the whole heaven there has not been done as has been done upon Jerusalem." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:13", "text": "As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:14", "text": "Therefore the LORD has watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:15", "text": "And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have made yourself a name, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:16", "text": "O Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and your wrath, I pray, be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all that are around us." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:17", "text": "Now therefore, O our God, hearken to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplications, and cause your face to shine upon your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:18", "text": "O my God, incline your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our supplications before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:19", "text": "O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and act; do not delay, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.\"" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:20", "text": "And while 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;" },{ "n": 21, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:21", "text": "yea, while I was speaking in prayer, 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." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:22", "text": "And he instructed me, and talked with me, and said, \"O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you wisdom and understanding." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:23", "text": "At the beginning of your supplications the word went forth, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:24", "text": "Seventy weeks are decreed upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sin, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint a most holy place." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:25", "text": "Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto an anointed one, a prince, shall be seven weeks; and for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troublous times." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:26", "text": "And after the sixty-two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and his end shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "DAN-WOH-9:27", "text": "And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week; and for the half of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one that makes desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/daniel-woh/chapters/9", "book": "/v1/library/books/daniel-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/daniel-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }