25 Now listen and understand! Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven9:25a Hebrew Seven sevens plus sixty-two sevens. will pass from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until a ruler—the Anointed One9:25b Or an anointed one; similarly in 9:26. Hebrew reads a messiah.—comes. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses,9:25c Or and a moat, or and trenches. despite the perilous times.
26 "After this period of sixty-two sets of seven,9:26 Hebrew After sixty-two sevens. the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. The end will come with a flood, and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end. 27 The ruler will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven,9:27a Hebrew for one seven. but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings. And as a climax to all his terrible deeds,9:27b Hebrew And on the wing; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration,9:27c Hebrew an abomination of desolation. until the fate decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on him."