19. Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, listen and act! My God, for Your own sake, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.
20. While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before Yahweh my God concerning the holy mountain of my God —
21. while I was praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the first vision, came to me in my extreme weariness, about the time of the evening offering.
22. He gave me this explanation: “Daniel, I’ve come now to give you understanding.
23. At the beginning of your petitions an answer went out, and I have come to give it, for you are treasured by God. So consider the message and understand the vision:
24. Seventy weeks are decreed 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, to seal up vision and prophecy,and to anoint the most holy place.
25. Know and understand this:From the issuing of the decreeto restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince will be seven weeks and 62 weeks. It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,but in difficult times.
26. After those 62 weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing.The people of the coming princewill destroy the city and the sanctuary.The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war;desolations are decreed.
27. He will make a firm covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the weekhe will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.And the abomination of desolation will be on a wing of the temple until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator.”