Daniel 9:20–26
20 While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel,j and presenting my petition before the Lord my God concerning the holy mountain of my God—21 while I was praying, Gabriel,k the man I had seen in the first vision,l reached me in my extreme weariness, about the time of the evening offering.m 22 He gave me this explanation: “Daniel, I’ve come now to give you understanding.n 23 At the beginning of your petitions an answer went out, and I have come to give it, for you are treasured by God.B,o So consider the message and understand the vision:p
24 Seventy weeks are decreedq
about your people and your holy city—
to bring the rebellion to an end,
to put a stop to sin,
to atone for iniquity,
to bring in everlasting righteousness,r
to seal up vision and prophecy,
and to anoint the most holy place.
From the issuing of the decree
to restore and rebuild Jerusalems
until an Anointed One,t the ruler,C
will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.
It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,
but in difficult times.
26 After those sixty-two weeks
the Anointed One will be cut offu
and will have nothing.
The people of the coming ruler
will destroy the cityv and the sanctuary.D
TheE end will come with a flood,w
and until the end there will beF war;
desolations are decreed.