Daniel 10:2

Green's Literal Translation

In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three weeks of days.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.

Hebrew Names Version
In those days I, Daniyel, was mourning three whole weeks.

King James Version
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

English Standard Version
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks.

New American Standard Bible
In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks.

New Century Version
At that time I, Daniel, had been very sad for three weeks.

Amplified Bible
In those days I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks.

Geneva Bible (1587)
At the same time I Daniel was in heauines for three weekes of dayes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks.

Berean Standard Bible
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.

Contemporary English Version
Daniel wrote: For three weeks I was in sorrow.

Complete Jewish Bible
At that time I, Dani'el, had been mourning for three whole weeks.

Darby Translation
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks:

Easy-to-Read Version
At that time I, Daniel, was very sad for three weeks.

George Lamsa Translation
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three times seven weeks of days.

Good News Translation
At that time I was mourning for three weeks.

Lexham English Bible
In those days, I, Daniel, I myself was in mourning for three whole weeks.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
At the same tyme, I Daniel mourned for the space of thre wekes,

American Standard Version
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.

Bible in Basic English
In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
In those days I Daniel was mourning three whole weeks.

King James Version (1611)
In those dayes, I Daniel was mourning three full weekes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
At the same time, I Daniel mourned for the space of three weekes of dayes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

English Revised Version
In those days I Daniel was mourning three whole weeks.

World English Bible
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In tho daies Y, Danyel, mourenyde bi the daies of thre woukis;

Update Bible Version
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.

Webster's Bible Translation
In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

New English Translation
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks.

New King James Version
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks.

New Living Translation
When this vision came to me, I, Daniel, had been in mourning for three whole weeks.

New Life Bible
In those days, I, Daniel, had been full of sorrow for three weeks.

New Revised Standard
At that time I, Daniel, had been mourning for three weeks.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three sevens of days:

Douay-Rheims Bible
In those days I, Daniel, mourned the days of three weeks.

Revised Standard Version
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks.

Young's Literal Translation
`In those days, I, Daniel, have been mourning three weeks of days;

THE MESSAGE
"During those days, I, Daniel, went into mourning over Jerusalem for three weeks. I ate only plain and simple food, no seasoning or meat or wine. I neither bathed nor shaved until the three weeks were up.

Contextual Overview

¹ In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar. And the thing was true, and a great conflict. And he understood the thing and had understanding of the vision. ² In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three weeks of days. ³ I ate no food for delight, and no flesh or wine came into my mouth. I did not anoint myself at all until three weeks of days were fulfilled. ⁴ And in the twenty fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Tigris, ⁵ then I lifted up my eyes and looked: And behold! A certain man was clothed in linen, whose loins were wrapped in fine gold from Uphaz. ⁶ His body was also like the beryl, and his face looked like lightning. And his eyes were like torches of fire; and his arms and his feet in color like polished bronze; and the sound of his words were as the noise of a multitude. ⁷ And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision. For the men who were with me did not see the vision. But a great trembling fell on them so that they fled to hide themselves. ⁸ Then I was left alone, and I saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me. For my glory was turned within me into corruption, and I kept no strength. ⁹ Yet I heard the sound of his words. And when I heard the sound of his words, then I was on my face, stunned, and my face was toward the ground.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I Daniel: Ezra 9:4, Ezra 9:5, Nehemiah 1:4, Psalms 42:9, Psalms 43:2, Psalms 137:1-5, Isaiah 66:10, Jeremiah 9:1, Matthew 9:15, Romans 9:2, James 4:9, Revelation 11:5

full weeks: Heb. weeks of days, Daniel 9:24-27

Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:27 - afflict Ecclesiastes 7:3 - is better Isaiah 58:3 - in Daniel 8:1 - me Daniel Daniel 9:3 - with Daniel 9:20 - whiles Daniel 10:12 - from Matthew 6:17 - anoint

Cross-References

Genesis 10:5
The coasts of the nations were divided by these in their lands each by his tongue, by their families, in their nations.

Genesis 10:7
And the sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And Raamah's sons were Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10:12
and Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a great city.

Genesis 10:14
and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, from whom came the Philistines and Caphtorim.

Genesis 10:21
And to Shem was born, even to him, the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

Isaiah 66:19
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape from them to the nations of Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, drawers of the bow; to Tubal and Javan, to the far away coasts that have not heard My fame nor seen My glory.And they shall declare My glory among the nations.

Ezekiel 27:7
Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, an ensign for you, violet and purple from the coasts, of Elishah was your covering.

Ezekiel 27:19
And Dan and Javan going about gave for your wares; smooth iron, cassia, and cane were among your goods.

Ezekiel 38:6
Gomer and all its bands; the house of Togarmah from the recesses of the north, and all its bands; many peoples are with you.

Ezekiel 38:15
And you shall come from your place out of the recesses of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly, a mighty army.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In those days I Daniel was mourning,.... Either on account of what had been revealed to him in the last vision or prophecy of the seventy weeks; by which it appeared what wickedness the people of the Jews would be guilty of in cutting off the Messiah; and what desolations would come upon their land, city, and temple, for such usage of him: as also because of the present case of his people; many of them continuing in the country of Babylon, when they had liberty to return to their land: or because of the hinderance the Jews met with in rebuilding their city and temple, who had returned thither; of which Daniel had an account, and which caused him to mourn in secret: and so he continued

three full weeks; or, "three weeks of days" c; so called, to distinguish them from weeks of years, mentioned in the preceding chapter.

c שלשה שבעים ימים "tribus hebdomadibus dierum", Munster, Calvin, Tigurine version; "trium hebdomadarum diebus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, so Junius & Tremellius, Medus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In those days I Daniel was mourning - I was afflicting myself; that is, he had set apart this time as an extraordinary fast. He was sad and troubled. He does not say on what account he was thus troubled, but there can be little doubt that it was on account of his people. This was two years after the order had been given by Cyrus for the restoration of the Hebrew people to their country, but it is not improbable that they met with many embarrassments in their efforts to return, and possibly there may have sprung up in Babylon some difficulties on the subject that greatly affected the mind of Daniel. The difficulties attending such an enterprise as that of restoring a captured people to their country, when the march lay across a vast desert, would at any time have been such as to have made an extraordinary season of prayer and fasting proper.

Three full weeks - Margin, “weeks of days.” Hebrew, “Three sevens of days.” He does not say whether he had designedly set apart that time to be occupied as a season of fasting, or whether he had, under the influence of deep feeling, continued his fast from day to day until it reached that period. Either supposition will accord with the circumstances of the case, and either would have justified such an act at anytime, for it would be undoubtedly proper to designate a time of extraordinary devotion, or, under the influence of deep feeling, of domestic trouble, of national affliction, to continue such religious exercises from day to day.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Daniel 10:2. I-was mourning three full weeks. — The weeks are most probably dated from the time of the termination of the last vision. Calmet proves this by several reasons.