Daniel 9:16

9:16 O Lord, according to all your justice, 1  please turn your raging anger 2  away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors.

Daniel 11:17

11:17 His intention 3  will be to come with the strength of his entire kingdom, and he will form alliances. 4  He will give the king of the south 5  a daughter 6  in marriage in order to destroy the kingdom, but it will not turn out to his advantage.

1 tn Or “righteousness.”

2 tn Heb “your anger and your rage.” The synonyms are joined here to emphasize the degree of God’s anger. This is best expressed in English by making one of the terms adjectival (cf. NLT “your furious anger”; CEV “terribly angry”).

3 tn Heb “and he will set his face.” Cf. vv. 18, 19.

4 tc The present translation reads מֵישָׁרִים (mesharim, “alliances”) for the MT וִישָׁרִים (viysharim, “uprightness”).

5 tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king of the south) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

6 tn Heb “the daughter of the women.”

sn The daughter refers to Cleopatra, the daughter of Antiochus, who was given in marriage to Ptolemy V.