²⁴ Seventy weeks^[a] have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. ²⁵ So be informed and discern that seven weeks and 62 weeks will elapse^[b] from the issuance of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed Commander.^[c] The plaza and moat will be rebuilt, though in troubled times. ²⁶ Then after the 62 weeks, the anointed one^[d] will be cut down (but not for himself).^[e] Then the people of the Coming Commander^[f] will destroy both the city and the Sanctuary. Its ending will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war, with desolations having been decreed.