19. O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.”
20. While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the lord my God concerning his holy mountain –
21. yes, while I was still praying, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen previously in a vision, was approaching me in my state of extreme weariness, around the time of the evening offering.
22. He spoke with me, instructing me as follows: “Daniel, I have now come to impart understanding to you.
23. At the beginning of your requests a message went out, and I have come to convey it to you, for you are of great value in God’s sight. Therefore consider the message and understand the vision:
24. “Seventy weeks have been determinedconcerning your people and your holy cityto put an end to rebellion,to bring sin to completion,to atone for iniquity,to bring in perpetual righteousness,to seal up the prophetic vision,and to anoint a most holy place.
25. So know and understand:From the issuing of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince arrives, there will be a period of seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.It will again be built, with plaza and moat,but in distressful times.
26. Now after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing.As for the city and the sanctuary,the people of the coming prince will destroy them.But his end will come speedily like a flood.Until the end of the war that has been decreedthere will be destruction.
27. He will confirm a covenant with many for one week.But in the middle of that weekhe will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt.On the wing of abominations will come one who destroys,until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys.”