25 Know and understand this:
From the issuing of the decree
to restore and rebuild Jerusalem(A)
until Messiah(B) the Prince[a]
will be seven weeks and 62 weeks.[b]
It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,
but in difficult times.
26 After those 62 weeks[c]
the Messiah will be cut off(C)
and will have nothing.
The people of the coming prince
will destroy the city(D) and the sanctuary.
The[d] end will come with a flood,(E)
and until the end there will be[e] war;
desolations are decreed.
27 He will make a firm covenant[f]
with many for one week,[g]
but in the middle of the week
he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.
And the abomination of desolation(F)
will be on a wing(G) of the temple[h][i]
until the decreed destruction(H)
is poured out on the desolator.”

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:25 Or until an anointed one, a prince
  2. Daniel 9:25 = 49 years and 434 years
  3. Daniel 9:26 = 434 years
  4. Daniel 9:26 Lit Its, or His
  5. Daniel 9:26 Or end of a
  6. Daniel 9:27 Or will enforce a covenant
  7. Daniel 9:27 = 7 years
  8. Daniel 9:27 LXX; MT reads of abominations
  9. Daniel 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

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

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:25 Or an anointed one; also in verse 26
  2. Daniel 9:26 Or death and will have no one; or death, but not for himself
  3. Daniel 9:27 Or ‘week’
  4. Daniel 9:27 Or ‘week’
  5. Daniel 9:27 Septuagint and Theodotion; Hebrew wing
  6. Daniel 9:27 Or it
  7. Daniel 9:27 Or And one who causes desolation will come upon the wing of the abominable temple, until the end that is decreed is poured out on the desolated city