Daniel 9:20–27

The 70 Weeks of Years

20 While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, d and presenting my petition before * Yahweh my God concerning the holy mountain of my God— 21 while I was praying, Gabriel, e the man I had seen in the first vision, f came to me in my extreme weariness, about the time of the evening offering. g 22 He gave me this explanation: “Daniel, I’ve come now to give you understanding. h 23 At the beginning of your petitions an answer went out, and I have come to give it, for you are treasured by God. i So consider the message and understand the vision: j

24 Seventy weeks k are decreed l

about your people and your holy city—

to bring the rebellion to an end,

to put a stop to sin,

to wipe away iniquity,

to bring in everlasting righteousness, m

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 Jerusalem n

until * Messiah o the Prince p

will be seven weeks and 62 weeks. q

It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,

but in difficult times.

26 After those 62 weeks r

the Messiah will be cut off s

and will have nothing.

The people of the coming prince

will destroy the city t and the sanctuary.

The u end will come with a flood, v

and until the end there will be w war;

desolations are decreed.

27 He will make a firm covenant x

with many for one week, y

but in the middle of the week

he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.

And the abomination of desolation z

will be on a wing a of the temple b c

until the decreed destruction d

is poured out on the desolator.”