19 Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, listen and act! My God, for Your own sake, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.
20 While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before Yahweh my God concerning the holy mountain of my God —
21 while I was praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the first vision, came to me in my extreme weariness, about the time of the evening offering.
22 He gave me this explanation: “Daniel, I’ve come now to give you understanding.
23 At the beginning of your petitions an answer went out, and I have come to give it, for you are treasured by God. So consider the message and understand the vision:
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 decreeto 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.