Seventy Weeks and the Messiah

²⁴ “Seventy ^[a](A)weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to ^[b]finish the wrongdoing, to ^[c]make an end of sin, to ^(B)make atonement for guilt, to bring in ^(C)everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and ^[d]prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. ²⁵ So you are to know and understand that from the issuing of a ^[e](D)decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until ^[f](E)Messiah the ^(F)Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with ^[g]streets and moat, even in times of distress. ²⁶ Then after the sixty-two weeks, the ^[h]Messiah will be ^(G)cut off and have ^[i]nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will ^(H)destroy the city and the sanctuary. And ^[j]its end will come with a ^(I)flood; even to the end ^[k]there will be war; desolations are determined. ²⁷ And he will confirm a covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of ^[l](J)abominations will come the one who ^[m]makes desolate, until a ^(K)complete destruction, one that is ^[n]decreed, gushes forth on the one who ^[o]makes desolate.”

The Time of the End

12 “Now at that time ^(A)Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a ^(B)time of distress ^(C)such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the ^(D)book, will be rescued. ² And ^(E)many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, ^(F)these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting ^[a]contempt. ³ And ^[b]those who have ^(G)insight will ^(H)shine like the glow of the ^[c]expanse of heaven, and those who ^[d](I)lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. ⁴ But as for you, Daniel, ^(J)keep these words secret and ^(K)seal up the book until the ^(L)end of time; ^(M)many will roam about, and knowledge will increase.”

⁵ Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others were standing, one on this bank of the stream and the other on that bank of the stream. ⁶ And ^(N)someone said to the man ^(O)dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, “^(P)How long will it be until the end of these wonders?” ⁷ And I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, ^[e]as he ^(Q)raised his right hand and his left toward heaven, and swore by ^(R)Him who lives forever that it would be for a ^[f](S)time, ^[g]times, and half a ^[h]time; and as soon as ^[i]they finish ^(T)smashing the ^[j]power of the holy people, all these events will be completed. ⁸ But as for me, I heard but did not understand; so I said, “My lord, what will be the ^[k]outcome of these events?” ⁹ And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for these words will be kept secret and ^(U)sealed up until the end time. ^10 (V)Many will be purged, ^[l]cleansed, and refined, but the ^(W)wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but ^[m]those who ^(X)have insight will understand. ¹¹ And from the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the ^(Y)abomination ^[n]of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.

⁴⁰ “And at the ^(A)end time the ^(B)king of the South will wage war with him, and the ^(C)king of the North will ^(D)storm against him with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he will enter countries, ^(E)overflow them, and pass through. ⁴¹ He will also enter the ^[a](F)Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall; but these will be rescued out of his hand: Edom, ^(G)Moab, and the foremost of the sons of ^(H)Ammon. ⁴² Then he will reach out with his hand against other countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape. ⁴³ But he will ^[b]gain control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and ^(I)Libyans and ^(J)Ethiopians will follow at his ^[c]heels. ⁴⁴ But rumors from the East and from the North will terrify him, and he will go out with great wrath to eliminate and ^[d]annihilate many. ⁴⁵ And he will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas and the beautiful ^(K)Holy Mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.