Daniele 9
La Nuova Diodati
9 Nell'anno primo di Dario, figlio di Assuero, della stirpe dei Medi, che fu costituito re sul regno dei Caldei,
2 nel primo anno del suo regno, io, Daniele, compresi dai libri il numero degli anni in cui, secondo la parola dell'Eterno indirizzata al profeta Geremia, dovevano essere portate a compimento le desolazioni di Gerusalemme, è cioè settant'anni.
3 Volsi quindi la mia faccia verso il Signore DIO, per cercarlo con preghiera e suppliche, col digiuno, col sacco e con la cenere.
4 Cosí feci la mia preghiera e confessione all'Eterno, il mio DIO, dicendo: «O Signore, Dio grande e tremendo, che conservi il tuo patto e la tua misericordia con quelli che ti amano e osservano i tuoi comandamenti,
5 abbiamo peccato e abbiamo agito perversamente, siamo stati malvagi e ci siamo ribellati, allontanandoci dai tuoi comandamenti e dai tuoi decreti.
6 Non abbiamo ascoltato i profeti, tuoi servi, che hanno parlato nel tuo nome ai nostri re, ai nostri capi, ai nostri padri e a tutto il popolo del paese.
7 O Signore, a te appartiene la giustizia, ma a noi la confusione della faccia come avviene oggi stesso agli uomini di Giuda, agli abitanti di Gerusalemme e a tutto Israele, a quelli vicini e a quelli lontani, in tutti i paesi in cui li hai dispersi, a motivo delle infedeltà che hanno commesso contro di te.
8 O Signore, a noi la confusione della faccia, ai nostri re, ai nostri capi e ai nostri padri, perché abbiamo peccato contro di te.
9 Al Signore nostro DIO appartengono la misericordia e il perdono, perché ci siamo ribellati contro di lui,
10 e non abbiamo ascoltato la voce dell'Eterno, il nostro DIO, per camminare nelle sue leggi, che ci aveva posto davanti per mezzo dei suoi servi, i profeti.
11 Sí, tutto Israele ha trasgredito la tua legge, si è sviato per non ubbidire alla tua voce; perciò si è riversata su di noi la maledizione e l'imprecazione scritta nella legge di Mosè, servo di DIO, perché abbiamo peccato contro di lui.
12 Cosí egli ha mandato a compimento le sue parole che aveva pronunciato contro di noi e contro i nostri giudici che ci hanno governato, facendo venire su di noi una grande calamità, perché sotto tutto il cielo non è mai stato fatto nulla di simile a ciò che è stato fatto a Gerusalemme.
13 Come è scritto nella legge di Mosè, tutta questa calamità ci è venuta addosso, tuttavia non abbiamo implorato l'Eterno, il nostro DIO, per convertirci dalle nostre iniquità e prestare attenzione alla tua verità.
14 Perciò l'Eterno ha tenuto in serbo questa calamità e la fatta venire su di noi, perché l'Eterno, il nostro DIO, è giusto in tutte le cose che fa, mentre noi non abbiamo ubbidito alla sua voce.
15 E ora, o Signore, DIO nostro, che facesti uscire il tuo popolo dal paese d'Egitto con mano potente e ti facesti un nome qual è oggi, noi abbiamo peccato, abbiamo agito malvagiamente.
16 O Signore, secondo tutta la tua giustizia, fa ti prego, che la tua ira e il tuo furore si allontanino da Gerusalemme, la tua città, il tuo monte santo, per i nostri peccati e per le iniquità dei nostri padri, Gerusalemme e il tuo popolo sono divenuti oggetto di vituperio per tutti quelli che ci circondano.
17 Perciò ora ascolta, o DIO nostro, la preghiera del tuo servo e le sue suppliche e fa' risplendere, per amore del Signore, il tuo volto sul tuo santuario che è desolato.
18 O mio DIO, porgi il tuo orecchio e ascolta; apri i tuoi occhi e guarda le nostre desolazioni e la città sulla quale è invocato il tuo nome, perché noi non presentiamo le nostre suppliche davanti a te per le nostre opere giuste, ma per le tue grandi compassioni.
19 O Signore, ascolta; Signore, perdona; Signore, presta attenzione e opera. Non indugiare, per amor di te stesso, o mio DIO, perché il tuo nome è invocato sulla tua città e sul tuo popolo».
20 Mentre io stavo ancora parlando, pregando e confessando il mio peccato e il peccato del mio popolo d'Israele, e presentavo la mia supplica davanti all'Eterno, il mio DIO, per il monte santo del mio DIO,
21 sí, mentre stavo ancora parlando in preghiera, quell'uomo Gabriele, che avevo visto in visione all'inizio, mandato con rapido volo, mi raggiunse verso l'ora dell'oblazione della sera.
22 Egli mi ammaestrò, mi parlò e disse: «Daniele, io sono venuto ora per metterti in grado di intendere.
23 All'inizio delle tue suppliche è uscita una parola e io sono venuto per fartela conoscere, perché tu sei grandemente amato. Fa' dunque attenzione alla parola e intendi la visione:
24 Settanta settimane sono stabilite per il tuo popolo e per la tua santa città, per far cessare la trasgressione, per mettere fine al peccato, per espiare l'iniquità, per far venire una giustizia eterna, per sigillare visione e profezia e per ungere il luogo santissimo.
25 Sappi perciò e intendi che da quando è uscito l'ordine di restaurare e ricostruire Gerusalemme, fino al Messia, il principe, vi saranno sette settimane e altre sessantadue settimane; essa sarà nuovamente ricostruita con piazza e fossato, ma in tempi angosciosi.
26 Dopo le sessantadue settimane il Messia sarà messo a morte e nessuno sarà per lui. E il popolo di un capo che verrà distruggerà la città e il santuario; la sua fine verrà con un'inondazione, e fino al termine della guerra sono decretate devastazioni.
27 Egli stipulerà pure un patto con molti per una settimana, ma nel mezzo della settimana farà cessare sacrificio e oblazione; e sulle ali delle abominazioni verrà un devastatore, finché la totale distruzione, che è decretata, sarà riversata sul devastatore».
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.
Daniel 9
Orthodox Jewish Bible
9 In the shnat achat (first year) of Daryavesh ben Achashverosh, by zera (descent) a Mede, who was made melech over the realm of the Kasdim (Chaldeans);
2 In the shnat achat of his reign, I, Daniel, received binah (understanding) from the Sfarim (books, Kitvei Hakodesh) of the number of the shanim, that the Devar Hashem was unto Yirmeyah HaNavi, with respect to the desolations of Yerushalayim, SHIVIM SHANAH must be completed [Yirmeyah 25:11; 29:10].
3 And I set my face unto Adonoi HaElohim, to plead by tefillah and tachanunim (supplications), with a tzom, and sackcloth, and ashes;
4 And I davened unto Hashem Elohai, and I made vidduy (confession of sin), and said, O Adonoi, HaEl HaGadol V’HaNorah (the great and dreadful G-d), Shomer HaBrit V’HaChesed (Who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness) to them that love Him, and to them that are shomrei mitzvot;
5 We have sinned, and we have committed iniquity, and we have done wickedly, and we have rebelled, even by departing from Thy mitzvot and from Thy mishpatim;
6 Neither have we heeded or listened unto Thy avadim the nevi’im, which spoke in Thy Name unto our Melachim, our Sarim (princes), and our Avot, and to kol Am HaAretz.
7 To Thee, Adonoi, is the tzedakah, but unto us is boshet hapanim (shame of face), as at yom hazeh; to the men of Yehudah, and to the yoshvei Yerushalayim, and unto kol Yisroel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither Thou hast driven them, because of their ma’al (betrayal, treachery) wherein they have dealt unfaithfully against Thee.
8 O Hashem, to us belongeth boshet hapanim, to our Melachim, to our Sarim (princes), and to our Avot, because we have sinned against Thee.
9 To Adonoi Eloheinu belong the rachamim and the selichot (forgiveness), for we have rebelled against Him;
10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of Hashem Eloheinu, to walk in His torot, which He has set before us by the hand of His avadim the Nevi’im.
11 Yea, kol Yisroel has transgressed Thy Torah, even by departing, refusing to obey Thy kol (voice); therefore ha’alah (the curse [Devarim 29:18]) is poured upon us, and hashevuah (the oath) that is written in the Torat Moshe the Eved HaElohim, because we have sinned against Him. [Vayikra 26:14f; Devarim 28:15f]
12 And He hath confirmed His words, which He spoke concerning us, and concerning our shofetim who judged us, that He would bring upon us a ra’ah gedolah, so that there has not been done under kol HaShomayim what has been done to Yerushalayim.
13 Even as it is written in the Torat Moshe, all hara’ah hazot (this evil) is come upon us, yet we have not mollified the face of Hashem Eloheinu, by turning away from avoneinu (our iniquities), and by having seichel (discernment) in Thy Emes.
14 Therefore hath Hashem watched upon the rah, and brought it upon us; for Hashem Eloheinu is tzaddik in all His ma’asim which He doeth, for we obeyed not His kol (voice).
15 And now, Adonoi Eloheinu, Who hast brought Thy people forth out of Eretz Mitzrayim with a yad chazakah (mighty hand), and hast gotten Thee renown, as at yom hazeh, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 O Adonoi, according to all Thy tzidkot, I beseech Thee, let Thine anger and Thy fury be turned away from Thy Ir (City) Yerushalayim, Thy Har Kodesh, because for chatta’einu, and for the avonot Avoteinu, Yerushalayim and Thy people are become a reproach, an object of scorn to all around about us.
17 Now therefore, shema, Eloheinu, hear the tefillah of Thy eved, and his tachanunim (supplications), and cause Thy face to shine upon Thy Mikdash [Beis HaMikdash] that is desolate, lema’an (for the sake of) Adonoi.
18 O Elohai, incline Thine ear, and shema; open Thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and HaIr which is called by Thy Name; for we do not present tachanuneinu (our supplications) before Thee on account of tzidkoteinu, but for the sake of Thy rachamim harabbim.
19 Adonoi, hear; Adonoi, forgive; Adonoi, hearken and act; delay not, for Thine own sake, O Elohai; for Thy city and Thy people are called by Thy Name.
20 And while I was speaking, and davening tefillos, and making vidduy (confession of sin) for me and for Ami Yisroel, and laying my techinnah (petition) before Hashem Elohai for the sake of the Har Kodesh of Elohai;
21 Yea, while I was davening in tefillah, even haish [see 8:15] Gavriel, whom I had seen in the chazon in the beginning, being caused to fly in weariness, reached me about the time of the minchat erev.
22 And he instructed me, and spoke with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to make thee have seichel in binah.
23 At the beginning of thy tachanunim (supplications) a commandment went forth, and I am come to make the word known; for thou art greatly valued; therefore understand the devar, and consider the vision.
24 Shivi’im heptads is decreed upon thy people and upon thy Ir Kodesh (Holy City), to restrain the peysha (transgression), and to make an end of chattat (sin), and to make kapporah for avon, and to bring in Tzedek Olamim (Everlasting Righteousness), and to seal up the chazon and navi, and to anoint the Kodesh HaKodashim.
25 Have da’as, therefore, and get seichel, that from the going forth of the decree to restore and to rebuild Yerushalayim unto Moshiach Nagid shall be shivah heptads, and threescore and two heptads; the rechov shall be built again, and the charutz, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two heptads, yikaret (will be cut off) Moshiach [Yeshayah 53:8], but not for himself [Yeshayah 53:4-6,8]; and the troops of the coming nagid shall destroy the Ir and the Kodesh (Beis Hamikdash, i.e., 70.C.E.); and the end thereof shall come with a flood, and unto the end there shall be war. Desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm brit (covenant) with rabbim for one heptad; and in the midst of the heptad he shall cause the zevach and the minchah to cease, and on the kenaf (wing) of the abominations is one making desolate, even until the complete destruction, a destruction that is decreed, shall be poured out upon the Shomem (Desolator, Destroyer).
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