Daniel 9:18-27

English Standard Version

^18 (A)O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see ^(B)our desolations, and ^(C)the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. ^(D)Delay not, ^(E)for your own sake, O my God, because ^(F)your city and ^(G)your people are called by your name.”

Gabriel Brings an Answer

^20 (H)While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the Lord my God for ^(I)the holy hill of my God, ²¹ while I was speaking in prayer, the man ^(J)Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, ^(K)came to me in swift flight at ^(L)the time of the evening sacrifice. ^22 (M)He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you ^(N)insight and understanding. ^23 (O)At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, ^(P)and I have come to tell it to you, for ^(Q)you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word ^(R)and understand the vision.

The Seventy Weeks

^24 (S)“Seventy weeks^[a] are decreed about your people and ^(T)your holy city, to finish ^(U)the transgression, to put an end to sin, ^(V)and to atone for iniquity, ^(W)to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and ^(X)to anoint a most holy place.^{[b] 25 (Y)}Know therefore and understand that ^(Z)from the going out of the word to restore and ^(AA)build Jerusalem to the coming of an ^(AB)anointed one, a ^(AC)prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again^[c] with squares and moat, ^(AD)but in a troubled time. ²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall ^(AE)be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come ^(AF)shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ^(AG)Its^[d] end shall come with a flood, ^(AH)and to the end there shall be war. ^(AI)Desolations are decreed. ²⁷ And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week,^[e] and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. ^(AJ)And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until ^(AK)the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”