Daniel 9:21–27

²¹while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man ^aGabriel, whom I had seen in the vision ¹previously, ²came to me ³in my extreme weariness about the time of the ^bevening offering.

²²He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with ^aunderstanding.

²³“At the ^abeginning of your supplications the ¹command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are ^2bhighly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain ^cunderstanding of the vision.

Seventy Weeks and the Messiah

²⁴“Seventy ^1aweeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to ²finish the transgression, to ³make an end of sin, to ^bmake atonement for iniquity, to bring in ^ceverlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and ⁴prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

²⁵“So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a ^1adecree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until ^2bMessiah the ^cPrince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with ³plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

²⁶“Then after the sixty-two weeks the ¹Messiah will be ^acut off and have ²nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will ^bdestroy the city and the sanctuary. And ³its end will come with a ^cflood; even to the end ⁴there will be war; desolations are determined.

²⁷“And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of ^1aabominations will come one who ²makes desolate, even until a ^bcomplete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”