and their colleagues<n id="1" /> who were carrying out work for the temple &#8211; 822; and Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malkijah,

<p class="poetry">Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">even if he lives a long, long time,<n id="1" /> but cannot enjoy his prosperity &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">even if he were to live forever<n id="2" /> &#8211; p> <p class="poetry">I would say, &#8220;A stillborn child<n id="3" /> is better off than he is!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<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>

<p class="poetry">Now after the sixty-two weeks,p> <p class="poetry">an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">As for the city and the sanctuary,p> <p class="poetry">the people of the coming prince will destroy<n id="2" /> them.p> <p class="poetry">But his end will come speedily<n id="3" /> like a flood.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Until the end of the war that has been decreedp> <p class="poetry">there will be destruction.p>