Daniel 9

The Seventy Sets of Seven Detailed

24 "Seventy weeks is decreed for your people and for your holy city,*Literally "for the city of your holiness" to put an end to the transgression and to seal up sin*Or "to make an end to sin" and to make atonement for guilt and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint the most holy place.*Literally "the holy place of holy places"25 And you must know and you must understand*Or "so you are to know and discern" (NASB), or "know then and understand" (e.g. NEB) that from the time of the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem until an anointed*Or "messiah" one—a leader—will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;*Literally "weeks seven and weeks sixty and two" it will be restored and will be built with streets and a moat, but in a time of oppression.*Literally "in distress/oppression of the times/time"

26 "And after the sixty and two weeks an anointed one*Or "messiah" shall be cut off, and he shall have nothing,*Literally "there is not for him" and the people of the coming leader will destroy the city and the sanctuary,*Or "holy place" and its end will be with the flood and on to the end there shall be war; these desolations are determined. 27 And he will make a strong covenant with the many for one week, but in half of the week he will let cease sacrifice and offering and in its place*Literally "and on a wing of" a desolating abomination comes even until the determined complete destruction*Literally "a complete destruction and being determined" is poured out on the desolator."