³ So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.^(A)

¹² ‘Don’t be afraid,^(A) Daniel,’ he said to me, ‘for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God,^(B) your prayers were heard. I have come because of your prayers.^(C)