Daniel 9:24-25 Meter Parsing

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Meter Colour Legend:

  • Red underlined text: pronounce as one syllable (dipthong or elision)
  • Orange: numbers divisble by seven / counts are sevened factors
  • Purple: factors of 3
  • Pink: submeters / syllable count for the preceding phrase
  • Green: is keyword / anaphora
  • Light green highlight: unmatched meter sums


(BHS Text for this document is from BibleWorks 5. Associated video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDYmgBx58tM )

 

שָׁבֻעִ֙ים שִׁבְעִ֜ים נֶחְתַּ֥ךְ7 עַֽל־עַמְּךָ֣4׀ וְעַל־עִ֣יר קָדְשֶׁ֗ךָ7 לְכַלֵּ֙א הַפֶּ֜שַׁע6 (וּלַחְתֹּם) [וּלְהָתֵ֤ם] (חַטָּאוֹת) [חַטָּאת֙]6 וּלְכַפֵּ֣ר עָוֹ֔ן6 וּלְהָבִ֖יא צֶ֣דֶק עֹֽלָמִ֑ים9 וְלַחְתֹּם֙ חָז֣וֹן

 וְנָבִ֔יא9 וְלִמְשֹׁ֖חַ קֹ֥דֶשׁ קָֽדָשִֽׁים׃9

Daniel 9:24

 

 

וְתֵדַ֙ע וְתַשְׂכֵּ֜ל6 מִן־מֹצָ֣א דָבָ֗ר לְהָשִׁיב֙7 וְלִבְנ֤וֹת יְרֽוּשָׁ֙לִַם֙7 עַד־מָשִׁ֣יחַ נָגִ֔יד שָׁבֻעִ֖ים שִׁבְעָ֑ה וְשָׁבֻעִ֞ים שִׁשִּׁ֣ים וּשְׁנַ֗יִם תָּשׁוּב֙21 וְנִבְנְתָה֙ רְח֣וֹב וְחָר֔וּץ10 וּבְצ֖וֹק הָעִתִּֽים׃6

 

Daniel 9:25

 


Results

 

Daniel 9:24, 63 syllables, numeric metaphor of 'Return' or 'End' DECREE due to Vote Short: same meter-matching-text meaning as Isaiah 53:9+10 or 10+11, Psalm 90:1-3; Daniel references it in Daniel 9:18 (69 syllables, one 'week' short). Since Psalm 90:1-3 is a decree (or 'voices' God decreeing), it's amazingly apt. Very clear no human king is doing any decreeing: only God. For comparison with these other passsages and full backup documentation, see pages 5-7 of http://www.brainout.net/Ephesians1REPARSED.doc .

The internet address of this page, is http://www.brainout.net/Dan924HebParsed.pdf. Daniel's prayer is parsed on page 2 of http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.RTF

; or change 'RTF' to 'pdf' if you prefer. (The pdf file can't 'read' intra-document links.)

Daniel 9:25, 57 syllables: sum of Jubilee and Trib; also, number of days from Passover start through Pentecost or from Pentecost start through 9th Av, when 1st -- and later, as predicted here -- the 2nd Temple goes down. 56 is the number of days BETWEEN. Daniel uses 58's in Daniel 9:11+12, to show Israel missed her calendar; but he uses the 56 as a 490-56, in his cumulative syllable count from Daniel 9:4 through 9:13. He also uses 62, in Daniel 9:16. Moses used 57 in Psalm 90:7 to 9, see the pregnant content tie; also 56 in Psalm 90:9+10, 13 to 15, 16+17; Isaiah 53:1+2, 5+6, 9+11 also uses 56. So notice how Daniel 9:25 also ties to those specific passages in content, antiphonally. Very rhythmic,


almost sing-song, making it easy to recall. answers Daniel 9:18's 69, since 62+7=69.


Daniel 9:13's meter was 49 syllables, cum=434, hence 7 sevens and 62 sevens to 'reimburse'. Cute. Notice how this meter also


Paul 'talks to' this 56 meter in his opening dateline, Christ as the '56' of history (= Vote Crucial). Paul also ends Eph 1:3-14 with a 56 left out (490-56=434). Your 57th year begins on your 56th birthday, get it?

Notice how the doctrinal meanings of the numbers 'match' word content, i.e., when about man or sin, 6 syllables; a perfecting/completion, 7; Trinity/Holiness, trebling of sevens or 9. This is a common feature of all Bible Hebrew meter, to match syllable count to doctrinal meaning, per clause.



Daniel 9:26-27, Hebrew Parsed for Meter

 


וְאַחֲרֵ֤י הַשָּׁבֻעִים֙ שִׁשִּׁ֣ים וּשְׁנַ֔יִם14 יִכָּרֵ֥ת מָשִׁ֖יחַ וְאֵ֣ין ל֑וֹ9 וְהָעִ֙יר וְהַקֹּ֜דֶשׁ

יַ֠שְׁחִית עַ֣ם נָגִ֤יד הַבָּא֙14 וְקִצּ֣וֹ בַשֶּׁ֔טֶף6 וְעַד֙ קֵ֣ץ מִלְחָמָ֔ה נֶחֱרֶ֖צֶת שֹׁמֵמֽוֹת׃14

Daniel 9:26

 

 וְהִגְבִּ֥יר בְּרִ֛ית לָרַבִּ֖ים שָׁב֣וּעַ אֶחָ֑ד14 וַחֲצִ֙י הַשָּׁב֜וּעַ יַשְׁבִּ֣ית׀ זֶ֣בַח12 וּמִנְחָ֗ה

וְעַ֙ל כְּנַ֤ף שִׁקּוּצִים֙ מְשֹׁמֵ֔ם14 וְעַד־כָּלָה֙ וְנֶ֣חֱרָצָ֔ה תִּתַּ֖ךְ עַל־שֹׁמֵֽם׃ פ14

Daniel 9:27

 

 


Results

Daniel 9:25 and Daniel 9:26 are each 57 syllables; Dan9:25-27, feature flanking 14's, post Messiah's birth. Daniel 9:27 balances to '54', sum of the years owed to Gentiles for Abraham's too-early maturation, showing they all were 'reimbursed' by Trib's end.

o       Same as the number of days INCLUDING ALL OF Passover, and Pentecost; INCLUDING ALL OF Pentecost, and 9th Av.

o       Same doubled 57's period as Titus' final assault on the Temple in 70AD. [According to historians, Titus began his final assault ON Passover start, and ended on 9th Av. Hence, 114 days. Isaiah used this same doubling in Isaiah 53:1+2, 5+6. Moses piggybacked the 57 on a 56 in Psalm 90:7-10: verses 7 through 9 = 57, verses 9 + 10 = 56.]

o       The 14's each stand for Hypostatic Union, nexus, turning point in history. (Noah's beginning and ending 7's, Jacob's 14 years, Joseph's fat-and-lean years, etc). Trebling depicts Trinity. Quadrupling = Completeness. Mirroring = God answers Moses' prayer in Psalm 90:15, 'as many as'. (Paul crafts his 14's off Daniel 9:26; Paul 'plays' Daniel to pray as Daniel did, in Eph1:15-23, 3:15-19 (bookends). So Paul uses two 14's and 3 sevens = 3.5 14's, instead of Dan9:25's four. Guess what the left-out 7 represents.)

o       See also meters of Psalm 90:11-13, 9+10, and especially 90:16+17, to which the 14 and the 56 are antiphonal; as well as Isaiah 53:1+2, 5+6, to which this is a reply. (Those Isaiah verses also sum 56 syllables each, and cover the juridical cause of 1st Temple downfall=Manasseh, 2Kings 21:10ff, 2Kings 23:26ff, 24:3ff; and 586-530BC Temple Down, respectively. Daniel prays at the beginning of 538BC or at the end of 539BC, syllable hiphgi(a) in Isaiah 53:6. Isaiah 53:9, 11 each sum 28, are Decrees, and sum = 56.)

o       The second 57 also answers Daniel 9:13, since there Daniel tagged Isaiah 53:2 (whose chronology meter, ref'd Manasseh). For Messiah was to die 57 years prior to the end of the second 2100 from Adam's Fall, for the Harvesting of Gentiles plus Tribulation, to play out. Even post-Temple, Israel didn't repent, as Dan 9:13 says So his meter 'accounts' for the loss retrospectively. Prospectively, Daniel 9:19, is 8 sevens short from Adam through the end of Millennium (5250/7 = 750).

o       Balance test: a rightly-parsed passage sum must evenly divide by 7 and show doctrinally-meaningful, Divine Convergence. So: 63 + 57 + 57 + 54 = 231 = 33 sevens or 77 threes, and 434 - 231 = 203, Isaiah 53:4's summed syllable count = TEMPLE DOWN, 586BC. (Paul will thus use 33 sevens for the eudokian anaphora sum in Eph1:3-14.) 63 + 57 = 120 = # years from 586BC and the next historical believer voting window (467-397BC, to which Daniel metrically balanced). Each verse's meter is


divisible by 3. 63 is 21 threes, prominent in Psalm 90; 54 is 18 threes; 57 is 19 threes. See the Trinity symmetry?


(Paul apes this style too, in his epainon anaphora,


109 threes. So the anaphora are antiphonal, and 'tag' Daniel 9:24-27.) The 'equidistance' palindrome test passed in the middle: God's two 57's 'answer' Daniel's two 58's, to make Israel end 'on time.'

Sisyphus