Daniel 9:20-27
Holman Christian Standard Bible
The 70 Weeks of Years
20 While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel,(A) and presenting my petition before Yahweh my God concerning the holy mountain of my God— 21 while I was praying, Gabriel,(B) the man I had seen in the first vision,(C) came to me in my extreme weariness, about the time of the evening offering.(D) 22 He gave me this explanation: “Daniel, I’ve come now to give you understanding.(E) 23 At the beginning of your petitions an answer went out, and I have come to give it, for you are treasured by God.(F) So consider the message and understand the vision:(G)
24 Seventy weeks[a] are decreed(H)
about your people and your holy city—
to bring the rebellion to an end,
to put a stop to sin,
to wipe away iniquity,
to bring in everlasting righteousness,(I)
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(J)
until Messiah(K) the Prince[b]
will be seven weeks and 62 weeks.[c]
It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat,
but in difficult times.
26 After those 62 weeks[d]
the Messiah will be cut off(L)
and will have nothing.
The people of the coming prince
will destroy the city(M) and the sanctuary.
The[e] end will come with a flood,(N)
and until the end there will be[f] war;
desolations are decreed.
27 He will make a firm covenant[g]
with many for one week,[h]
but in the middle of the week
he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.
And the abomination of desolation(O)
will be on a wing(P) of the temple[i][j]
until the decreed destruction(Q)
is poured out on the desolator.”
Footnotes
- Daniel 9:24 = 490 years
- Daniel 9:25 Or until an anointed one, a prince
- Daniel 9:25 = 49 years and 434 years
- Daniel 9:26 = 434 years
- Daniel 9:26 Lit Its, or His
- Daniel 9:26 Or end of a
- Daniel 9:27 Or will enforce a covenant
- Daniel 9:27 = 7 years
- Daniel 9:27 LXX; MT reads of abominations
- Daniel 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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