3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;


In Context

1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed 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 that the number of the years, whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishment of the desolations of Jerusalem, was seventy years.

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

4 and I prayed unto Jehovah my God, and made my confession, and said, Alas Lord! the great and terrible God, keeping covenant and loving-kindness with them that love him, and that keep his commandments:

5 we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy commandments and from thine ordinances.

Daniel 9:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:3So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:3And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:3And I set my face to the Lord my God, to pray and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:3And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:3I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:3and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.