Daniel 9:20-23

Gabriel Brings Understanding

20 Now while I was ^aspeaking and praying, and ^bconfessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and ¹presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, 21 and while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man ^aGabriel, whom I had seen in the vision ¹previously, ²touched me ³in my extreme weariness about the time of the ^bevening offering. 22 Then he made me understand and spoke with me and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with ^aunderstanding. 23 At the ^abeginning of your supplications the word was issued, so I have come to tell you, for you are ¹^bhighly esteemed; so understand the message and gain ^cunderstanding in what has appeared.