Daniel 9:1-3

Good News Translation

Daniel Prays for His People

9 Darius the Mede, who was the son of Xerxes, ruled over the kingdom of Babylonia. ^2 (A)In the first year of his reign I was studying the sacred books and thinking about the seventy years that Jerusalem would be in ruins, according to what the Lord had told the prophet Jeremiah. ³ And I prayed earnestly to the Lord God, pleading with him, fasting, wearing sackcloth, and sitting in ashes.