Daniel 9

24 Seventy weeks are decreed  * 9:24 Lv 25:8; Nm 14:34; Ezk 4:5–6

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,  * 9:24 Is 51:6,8; 56:1; Jr 23:5–6; Rm 3:21–22

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  * 9:25 Ezr 4:24; 6:1–15; Neh 2:1–8; 3:1

until an Anointed One,  * 9:25 Mt 1:17; Jn 1:41; 4:25 the ruler,  * 9:25 Or until an anointed one, a prince

will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.

It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,

but in difficult times.

26 After those sixty-two weeks

the Anointed One will be cut off  * 9:26 Is 53:8; Mk 9:12; Lk 24:26

and will have nothing.

The people of the coming ruler

will destroy the city  * 9:26 Mt 24:2; Mk 13:2; Lk 19:43–44 and the sanctuary.  * 9:26 MT; Theod, some mss read The city and the sanctuary will be destroyed when the ruler comes.

The  * 9:26 Lit Its, or His end will come with a flood,  * 9:26 Nah 1:8

and until the end there will be  * 9:26 Or end of a  war;

desolations are decreed.

27 He will make a firm covenant  * 9:27 Or will enforce a covenant

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  * 9:27 Dn 11:31; Mt 24:15; Mk 13:14; Lk 21:20

will be on a wing  * 9:27 Is 7:7–8; Mt 4:5 of the temple  * 9:27 LXX; MT reads of abominations,* 9:27 Or And the desolator will be on the wing of abominations, or And the desolator will come on the wings of monsters (or of horror); Hb obscure

until the decreed destruction  * 9:27 Is 10:23; 28:22

is poured out on the desolator."