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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
must be without feeling who can read it

unmoved. He commences by acknowledging

the faithfulness of God. God never fails in any

of his engagements with his followers. It was

not from any lack on God’s part in defending

and upholding them, that the Jews were then

in the furnace of captivity, but only on account

of their sins.

VERSE 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