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26 After those 62 weeks of time the Anointed One will be cut down and have nothing; then the warriors[a] of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and defile the sanctuary. Its end will come swiftly as in a flood and to the end there will be war. The decree has been issued: Desolation.

27 And that prince will make a binding treaty with many people for a one-week period of time. In the middle of that one period he will put a stop to all sacrifices and offerings to the Lord. And at the height[b] of his atrocities he will set up an abominable idol that desecrates the most holy place, until the desolation decreed is finally poured out on the defiler.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 9:26 Literally, people
  2. 9:27 Literally, wing
  3. 9:27 Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14

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