Daniel 9:21–27

²¹while I was still in prayer, Gabriel,^w the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.^{x 22}He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding.^{y 23}As soon as you began to pray,^z a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed.^a Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:^b

²⁴“Seventy ‘sevens’^c are decreed for your people and your holy city^c to finish^d transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone^d for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness,^e to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.^e

²⁵“Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild^f Jerusalem until the Anointed One,^fg the ruler,^h comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.^{i 26}After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death^j and will have nothing.^g The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood:^k War will continue until the end, and desolations^l have been decreed.^{m 27}He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’^h In the middle of the ‘seven’ⁱ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple^j he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreedⁿ is poured out on him.^k”^l