Daniel 9:3
What does Daniel 9:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Daniel 9:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek <FI>by<Fi> prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to pray and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And I set my face unto the LordGod, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;
Context
v.2in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
v.3This passage
v.4And I prayed unto Jehovah my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments,
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- James 5:16
Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
- Ezekiel 36:37
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
- Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
- Ezra 10:6
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.
- Daniel 10:2
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
- Ezra 8:21
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
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