^10 (A)They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.

^29 (A)For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’

¹⁵ And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt ^(A)with a mighty hand, and ^(B)have made a name for yourself, as at this day, ^(C)we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

¹⁶ “O Lord, ^(D)according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, ^(E)your holy hill, ^(F)because for our sins, and for ^(G)the iniquities of our fathers, ^(H)Jerusalem and your people have become ^(I)a byword among all who are around us. ¹⁷ Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord,^{[a] (J)}make your face to shine upon ^(K)your sanctuary, which is desolate. ^18 (L)O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see ^(M)our desolations, and ^(N)the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. ^(O)Delay not, ^(P)for your own sake, O my God, because ^(Q)your city and ^(R)your people are called by your name.”

Gabriel Brings an Answer

^20 (S)While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the Lord my God for ^(T)the holy hill of my God, ²¹ while I was speaking in prayer, the man ^(U)Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, ^(V)came to me in swift flight at ^(W)the time of the evening sacrifice. ^22 (X)He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you ^(Y)insight and understanding. ^23 (Z)At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, ^(AA)and I have come to tell it to you, for ^(AB)you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word ^(AC)and understand the vision.

The Seventy Weeks

^24 (AD)“Seventy weeks^[b] are decreed about your people and ^(AE)your holy city, to finish ^(AF)the transgression, to put an end to sin, ^(AG)and to atone for iniquity, ^(AH)to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and ^(AI)to anoint a most holy place.^{[c] 25 (AJ)}Know therefore and understand that ^(AK)from the going out of the word to restore and ^(AL)build Jerusalem to the coming of an ^(AM)anointed one, a ^(AN)prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again^[d] with squares and moat, ^(AO)but in a troubled time. ²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall ^(AP)be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come ^(AQ)shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ^(AR)Its^[e] end shall come with a flood, ^(AS)and to the end there shall be war. ^(AT)Desolations are decreed. ²⁷ And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week,^[f] and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. ^(AU)And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until ^(AV)the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

¹¹ But ^(A)Moses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

^15 (A)You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.