<p class="bodytext">In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Seventy weeks<n id="1" /> have been determinedp> <p class="poetry">concerning your people and your holy cityp> <p class="poetry">to put an end to<n id="2" /> rebellion,p> <p class="poetry">to bring sin<n id="3" /> to completion,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">to atone for iniquity,p> <p class="poetry">to bring in perpetual<n id="5" /> righteousness,p> <p class="poetry">to seal up<n id="6" /> the prophetic vision,<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">and to anoint a most holy place.<n id="8" />p>

I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips,<n id="1" /> nor did I anoint myself with oil<n id="2" /> until the end of those three weeks.p>

in the first year of his reign<n id="1" /> I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books<n id="2" /> that, according to the word of the <sc>LORDsc><n id="3" /> disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem<n id="4" /> were seventy in number.

<p class="poetry">So know and understand:p> <p class="poetry">From the issuing of the command<n id="1" /> to restore and rebuildp> <p class="poetry">Jerusalem<n id="2" /> until an anointed one, a prince arrives,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">there will be a period of seven weeks<n id="4" /> and sixty-two weeks.p> <p class="poetry">It will again be built,<n id="5" /> with plaza and moat,p> <p class="poetry">but in distressful times.p>