“I was speaking.
I was praying,
I was confessing my sins,
As well as the sins
Of my people Israel.
I was presenting
My supplication
Before Yahweh
My God,
On behalf
Of the holy mountain
Of my God.
While I was speaking
In prayer,
The man Gabriel,
Whom I had seen before
In the vision,
Came to me
In swift flight,
At the time
Of the evening sacrifice.”
Daniel was continuing with his prayers and supplications to Yahweh. He was confessing his sins and the sins of his people Israel. He was praying for the holy mountain of God that had been desolated. Then a man called Gabriel came flying in. Daniel said that he was the same Gabriel that was in the preceding chapter that helped Daniel interpret his vision before. There, he had the appearance of a man. Here, he is referred to as a flying man who arrived at the time of the evening sacrifice. Was this the angel Gabriel?