3 “I will send my messenger,^(A) who will prepare the way before me.^(B) Then suddenly the Lord^(C) you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant,^(D) whom you desire,^(E) will come,” says the Lord Almighty.

⁹ ‘The glory^(A) of this present house^(B) will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,^(C)’ declares the Lord Almighty.”

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)