Daniel 9:3
World English Bible (WEB)
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
In context
1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans—
2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
4 I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
Daniel 9:3 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and 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:
- 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.
- 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: