Daniel’s Prayer for His People

9 In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus,^[a] from the offspring of the Medes, who became king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans— ² in the first year of his kingship I, Daniel, observed in the scrolls the number of the years that it was that were to be fulfilled according to the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet for the devastation of Jerusalem—seventy years.