24 "Seventy 'sevens' 1 are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish 2 transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place. 3 25 "Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, 4 the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. 5 The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' 6 In the middle of the 'seven' 6 he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple 8 he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him. 9 " 10