² In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for ^(A)three weeks.

Nehemiah's Prayer

⁴ As soon as I heard these words I ^(A)sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the ^(B)God of heaven.

The Seventy Weeks

^24 (A)“Seventy weeks^[a] are decreed about your people and ^(B)your holy city, to finish ^(C)the transgression, to put an end to sin, ^(D)and to atone for iniquity, ^(E)to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and ^(F)to anoint a most holy place.^{[b] 25 (G)}Know therefore and understand that ^(H)from the going out of the word to restore and ^(I)build Jerusalem to the coming of an ^(J)anointed one, a ^(K)prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again^[c] with squares and moat, ^(L)but in a troubled time. ²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall ^(M)be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come ^(N)shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ^(O)Its^[d] end shall come with a flood, ^(P)and to the end there shall be war. ^(Q)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. ^(R)And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until ^(S)the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

⁴ Then all who ^(A)trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat ^(B)appalled until the evening sacrifice. ⁵ And at the ^(C)evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment ^(D)and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees ^(E)and spread out my hands to the Lord my God,

⁵ And if anyone would harm them, ^(A)fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, ^(B)this is how he is doomed to be killed.

^9 (A)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

² that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, ^(A)“Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? ^(B)The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and ^(C)then they will fast.