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.

25 Know and understand this:

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.

27 He will make a firm covenantG

with many for one week,

but in the middle of the week

he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.

And the abomination of desolationx

will be on a wingy of the templeH,I

until the decreed destructionz

is poured out on the desolator.”