¹⁶ Lord, in accordance with all Your ^[a]righteous acts, let now Your ^(A)anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your ^(B)holy mountain; for because of our sins and the wrongdoings of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an ^(C)object of taunting to all those around us. ¹⁷ So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his pleas, and for ^[b]Your sake, Lord, ^(D)let Your face shine on Your ^(E)desolate sanctuary.

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.”