Daniel (Greek) 9:3

¹In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,

²I Daniel understood by books the number of the years which was the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, even seventy years for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem.

— Daniel (Greek) 9:3 —

⁴And I prayed to the Lord my God, and confessed, and said, O Lord, the great and wonderful God, keeping thy covenant and thy mercy to them that love thee, and to them that keep thy commandments; we have sinned,

⁵we have done iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from thy commandments and from thy judgments: