Seventy sevens

24Seventy weeks are decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to seal up sins, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the most holy place.

25So know and understand: from the issuing of the word to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince, there will be seven weeks, and for sixty-two weeks it will be restored and rebuilt, with plaza and moat, but in troubled times.

26And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and will have nothing. And the city and the sanctuary the people of the coming ruler will destroy. Its end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.

27And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, and for half of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.