Daniel 9:3

KJV

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

— Daniel 9:3, King James Version
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Study Note

Daniel's turn to 'seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes' arises from his reading of Jeremiah's seventy-year prophecy (Jer. 25:11-12; 29:10), demonstrating that scriptural study drives prophetic intercession. The accumulation of penitential acts — fasting, sackcloth, ashes — signals a communal lamentation posture (Joel 1:14; 2:12) appropriate to the gravity of national sin and the scale of restoration sought. Daniel's prayer in 9:4-19 is one of the great penitential prayers of the Bible, alongside Ezra 9 and Nehemiah 9, modeling corporate confession of covenant unfaithfulness as the foundation of intercessory petition. The passage shaped Christian traditions of penitential prayer, fasting disciplines, and the use of Scripture as the source and direction of prayer.

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ASV

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

YLT

and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek <FI>by<Fi> prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

BBE

And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.

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