Gabriel Brings Understanding

²⁰ Now while I was ^(A)speaking and praying, and ^(B)confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and ^[a]presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, ²¹ and while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man ^(C)Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision ^[b]previously, ^[c]touched me ^[d]in my extreme weariness about the time of the ^(D)evening offering. ²² Then he made me understand and spoke with me and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with ^(E)understanding. ²³ At the ^(F)beginning of your supplications the word was issued, so I have come to tell you, for you are ^[e](G)highly esteemed; so understand the message and gain ^(H)understanding in what has appeared.

Seventy Weeks and the Messiah

²⁴ “Seventy ^[f](I)weeks have been determined for your people and for your holy city, to ^[g]finish the transgression, to ^[h]make an end of sin, to ^(J)make atonement for iniquity, to bring in ^(K)everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and ^[i]prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies. ²⁵ So you are to know and have insight that from the going out of a ^[j](L)word to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until ^[k](M)Messiah the ^(N)Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be restored and rebuilt, with ^[l]plaza and moat, even in times of distress. ²⁶ Then after the sixty-two weeks the ^[m]Messiah will be ^(O)cut off and have ^[n]nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will ^(P)destroy the city and the sanctuary. And ^[o]its end will come with a ^(Q)flood; even to the end ^[p]there will be war; desolations are decreed. ²⁷ And he will make a ^[q]firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will make sacrifice and grain offering cease; and on the wing of ^[r](R)abominations will come one who ^[s]makes desolate, even until a ^(S)complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who ^[t]makes desolate.”