Daniel 9:3
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
In context
1 In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans —
2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
3 So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
4 And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,
5 we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
Daniel 9:3 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
- KJV King James Version
- And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
- WEB World English Bible
- I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek [by] prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;
- WBS Webster Bible
- And I set my face to the Lord GOD, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: