Gabriel Brings an Answer

²⁰ While I was still ^(A)speaking and praying, and ^(B)confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and ^[a]presenting my plea before the Lord my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, ²¹ while I was still speaking in prayer, the man ^(C)Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision ^[b]previously, ^[c]came to me ^[d]in my extreme weariness about the time of the ^(D)evening offering. ²² And he instructed me and talked with me and said, “Daniel, I have come now to give you insight with ^(E)understanding. ²³ At the ^(F)beginning of your pleas the ^[e]command was issued, and I have come to tell you, because you are ^[f](G)highly esteemed; so pay attention to the message and gain ^(H)understanding of the vision.

Seventy Weeks and the Messiah

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