Daniel 9:20-27

Lexham English Bible

Gabriel’s Announcement and Presentation of the Seventy Sets of Seven

²⁰ Now I was still speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before^[a] Yahweh my God, on behalf of the holy mountain of my God.^{[b] 21} And I was still speaking in prayer, and the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously,^[c] in my weariness touched me^[d] at the time of the evening offering. ²² And he instructed me and he spoke with me and he said, “Daniel I have now come out^[e] to teach you understanding. ²³ At the beginning of your pleas for mercy, a word went out, and now I have come to declare^[f] it, for you are highly esteemed, and so consider the word and understand the vision.

The Seventy Sets of Seven Detailed

²⁴ “Seventy weeks is decreed for your people and for your holy city,^[g] to put an end to the transgression and to seal up sin^[h] and to make atonement for guilt and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint the most holy place.^{[i] 25} And you must know and you must understand^[j] that from the time of the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem until an anointed^[k] one—a leader—will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;^[l] it will be restored and will be built with streets and a moat, but in a time of oppression.^[m]

²⁶ “And after the sixty and two weeks an anointed one^[n] shall be cut off, and he shall have nothing,^[o] and the people of the coming leader will destroy the city and the sanctuary,^[p] and its end will be with the flood and on to the end there shall be war; these desolations are determined. ²⁷ And he will make a strong covenant with the many for one week, but in half of the week he will let cease sacrifice and offering and in its place^[q] a desolating abomination comes even until the determined complete destruction^[r] is poured out on the desolator.”