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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
set himself to seek the Lord with all his

heart. And how earnestly he engaged in the

work, even with fasting, and sackcloth, and

ashes! This was the year, probably, in which

he was cast into the lion’s den; and the prayer

of which we here have an account, may have

been the burden of that petition, which,

regardless of the unrighteous human law

which had been secured to the contrary, he

offered before the Lord three times a day.

VERSE 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.

We here have the opening of Daniel’s

wonderful prayer, — a prayer expressing such

humiliation and contrition of heart that one