Daniel 9:21-27
Christian Standard Bible
21 while I was praying, Gabriel,(A) the man I had seen in the first vision,(B) reached me in my extreme weariness, about the time of the evening offering.(C) 22 He gave me this explanation: “Daniel, I’ve come now to give you understanding.(D) 23 At the beginning of your petitions an answer went out, and I have come to give it, for you are treasured by God.[a](E) So consider the message and understand the vision:(F)
24 Seventy weeks are decreed(G)
about your people and your holy city—
to bring the rebellion to an end,
to put a stop to sin,
to atone for iniquity,
to bring in everlasting righteousness,(H)
to seal up vision and prophecy,
and to anoint the most holy place.
25 Know and understand this:
From the issuing of the decree
to restore and rebuild Jerusalem(I)
until an Anointed One,(J) the ruler,[b]
will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.
It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,
but in difficult times.
26 After those sixty-two weeks
the Anointed One will be cut off(K)
and will have nothing.
The people of the coming ruler
will destroy the city(L) and the sanctuary.[c]
The[d] end will come with a flood,(M)
and until the end there will be[e] war;
desolations are decreed.
27 He will make a firm covenant[f]
with many for one week,
but in the middle of the week
he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.
And the abomination of desolation(N)
will be on a wing(O) of the temple[g][h]
until the decreed destruction(P)
is poured out on the desolator.”
Footnotes
- 9:23 by God added for clarity
- 9:25 Or until an anointed one, a prince
- 9:26 MT; Theod, some mss read The city and the sanctuary will be destroyed when the ruler comes.
- 9:26 Lit Its, or His
- 9:26 Or end of a
- 9:27 Or will enforce a covenant
- 9:27 LXX; MT reads of abominations
- 9:27 Or And the desolator will be on the wing of abominations, or And the desolator will come on the wings of monsters (or of horror); Hb obscure
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