Daniel 9:21–27

²¹while 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.^Do So consider the message and understand the vision:^p

²⁴Seventy weeks are decreed^q

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.

²⁵Know and understand this:

From the issuing of the decree

to restore and rebuild Jerusalem^s

until an Anointed One,^t the ruler,^A

will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.

It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,

but in difficult times.

²⁶After those sixty-two weeks

the Anointed One will be cut off^u

and will have nothing.

The people of the coming ruler

will destroy the city^v and the sanctuary.^B

The^C end will come with a flood,^w

and until the end there will be^D war;

desolations are decreed.

²⁷He will make a firm covenant^E

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 desolation^x

will be on a wing^y of the temple^FG

until the decreed destruction^z

is poured out on the desolator.”