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

26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death(A) and will have nothing.[a] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood:(B) War will continue until the end, and desolations(C) have been decreed.(D) 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’[b] In the middle of the ‘seven’[c] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple[d] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed(E) is poured out on him.[e][f]

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  1. Daniel 9:26 Or death and will have no one; or death, but not for himself
  2. Daniel 9:27 Or ‘week’
  3. Daniel 9:27 Or ‘week’
  4. Daniel 9:27 Septuagint and Theodotion; Hebrew wing
  5. Daniel 9:27 Or it
  6. Daniel 9:27 Or And one who causes desolation will come upon the wing of the abominable temple, until the end that is decreed is poured out on the desolated city