¹² The Lord said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching^[a](A) to see that my word is fulfilled.”

¹⁶ You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud^(A) that covers the land.^(B) In days to come, Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am proved holy^(C) through you before their eyes.^(D)

²⁸ but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries.^(A) He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in days to come.^(B) Your dream and the visions that passed through your mind^(C) as you were lying in bed^(D) are these:^(E)

⁴⁴ “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush^(A) all those kingdoms^(B) and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.^(C)

²² He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding.^{(A) 23} As soon as you began to pray,^(B) a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed.^(C) Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:^(D)

²⁴ “Seventy ‘sevens’^[a] are decreed for your people and your holy city^(E) to finish^[b] transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone^(F) for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness,^(G) to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.^[c]

²⁵ “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild^(H) Jerusalem until the Anointed One,^[d](I) the ruler,^(J) comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.^{(K) 26} After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death^(L) and will have nothing.^[e] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood:^(M) War will continue until the end, and desolations^(N) have been decreed.^{(O) 27} He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’^[f] In the middle of the ‘seven’^[g] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple^[h] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed^(P) is poured out on him.^[i]”^[j]