Catholic Public Domain Version
"And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to ask and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. "
— Daniel 9:3, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:”
“And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. ”
“I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.”
“So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.”
“And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to pray and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.”
“And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.”
“And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:”
In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who ruled over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,
in year one of his reign, I, Daniel, understood in the books the number of the years, concerning the word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah, the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would be completed in seventy years.
And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to ask and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
And I prayed to the Lord, my God, and I confessed, and I said, “I beg you, O Lord God, great and terrible, preserving the covenant and mercy for those who love you and keep your commandments.
We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we acted impiously and have withdrawn, and we have turned aside from your commandments as well as your judgments.
We have not obeyed your servants, the prophets, who have spoken in your name to our kings, our leaders, our fathers, and all the people of the land.