24 Seventy weeks are decreed

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,
 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 until Messiah the Prince
will be seven weeks and 62 weeks.
It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat, but in difficult times.

26 After those 62 weeks

the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing.
The people of the coming prince will destroy the city and the sanctuary.
The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.

27 He will make a firm covenant with many for one week ( seven),
but in the middle of the week (seven) he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.
And the abomination of desolation will be on a wing of the temple
until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator.”