In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
Parallel translations
- WEB In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
- BSB In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.
- NKJV In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks.
- NASB In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks.
- NLT When this vision came to me, I, Daniel, had been in mourning for three whole weeks.
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Quick answer
At this time Daniel mourns and fasts for three full weeks. Earnest grief and self-denial prepare him to receive God's revelation.
Overview
Daniel describes a period of three weeks of mourning, likely over the troubles facing the returned exiles, expressed through fasting as the next verses detail. His sustained spiritual earnestness sets the stage for the heavenly vision that follows. This shows that profound encounters with God often come to hearts prepared by humility, prayer, and longing for His purposes.
Cross-references & the web
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- Neh 1:4And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
- Dan 9:24–27Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
- Ezra 9:4–5Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
- Rev 11:5And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
- Jer 9:1Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- Ps 42:9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- Ps 43:2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- Isa 66:10Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
- Matt 9:15And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
- Ps 137:1–5By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
- Rom 9:2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
- Jas 4:9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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