9:17 “So now, our God, accept 3 the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to 4 your devastated sanctuary for your own sake. 5 9:18 Listen attentively, 6 my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins 7 and the city called by your name. 8 For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, 9 but because your compassion is abundant. 9:19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.” 10
9:20 While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning his holy mountain 11 – 9:21 yes, while I was still praying, 12 the man Gabriel, whom I had seen previously 13 in a vision, was approaching me in my state of extreme weariness, 14 around the time of the evening offering. 9:22 He spoke with me, instructing me as follows: 15 “Daniel, I have now come to impart understanding to you. 9:23 At the beginning of your requests a message went out, and I have come to convey it to you, for you are of great value in God’s sight. 16 Therefore consider the message and understand the vision: 17
9:24 “Seventy weeks 18 have been determined
concerning your people and your holy city
to put an end to 19 rebellion,
to bring sin 20 to completion, 21
to atone for iniquity,
to bring in perpetual 22 righteousness,
to seal up 23 the prophetic vision, 24
and to anoint a most holy place. 25
9:25 So know and understand:
From the issuing of the command 26 to restore and rebuild
Jerusalem 27 until an anointed one, a prince arrives, 28
there will be a period of seven weeks 29 and sixty-two weeks.
It will again be built, 30 with plaza and moat,
but in distressful times.
9:26 Now after the sixty-two weeks,
an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. 31
As for the city and the sanctuary,
the people of the coming prince will destroy 32 them.
But his end will come speedily 33 like a flood. 34
Until the end of the war that has been decreed
there will be destruction.
9:27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one week. 35
But in the middle of that week
he will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt.
On the wing 36 of abominations will come 37 one who destroys,
until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys.”