¹ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,

² in the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by the books that the number of the years, whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishment of the desolations of Jerusalem, was seventy years.

³ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;

⁴ and I prayed unto Jehovah my God, and made my confession, and said, Alas Lord! the great and terrible ùGod, keeping covenant and loving-kindness with them that love him, and that keep his commandments:

⁵ we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy commandments and from thine ordinances.

⁶ And we have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

⁷ Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee.

⁸ O Lord, unto us is confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

⁹ With the Lord our God are mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against him;

¹⁰ and we have not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us through his servants the prophets.

¹¹ And all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside so as not to listen unto thy voice. And the curse hath been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God: for we have sinned against him.

¹² And he hath performed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil; so that there hath not been done under the whole heaven as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

¹³ As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us; yet we besought not Jehovah our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

¹⁴ And Jehovah hath watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he hath done; and we have not hearkened unto his voice.

¹⁵ -- And now, O Lord our God, who broughtest thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and hast made thee a name, as it is this day, -- we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

¹⁶ Lord, according to all thy righteousnesses, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; for because of our sins, and because of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people [are become] a reproach to all round about us.

¹⁷ And now, our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

¹⁸ Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies.

¹⁹ Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, hearken and do! defer not, for thine own sake, O my God! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

²⁰ And whilst I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God;

²¹ whilst I was yet speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

²² And he informed [me], and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am now come forth to make thee skilful of understanding.

²³ At the beginning of thy supplications the word went forth, and I am come to declare [it]; for thou art one greatly beloved. Therefore consider the word, and have understanding in the vision:

²⁴ Seventy weeks are apportioned out upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal the vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.

²⁵ Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times.

²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war, -- the desolations determined.

²⁷ And he shall confirm a covenant with the many [for] one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and because of the protection of abominations [there shall be] a desolator, even until that the consumption and what is determined shall be poured out upon the desolate.

¹ And he looked up and saw the rich casting their gifts into the treasury;

² but he saw also a certain poor widow casting therein two mites.

³ And he said, Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all;

⁴ for all these out of their abundance have cast into the gifts [of God]; but she out of her need has cast in all the living which she had.

⁵ And as some spoke of the temple, that it was adorned with goodly stones and consecrated offerings, he said,

⁶ [As to] these things which ye are beholding, days are coming in which there shall not be left stone upon stone which shall not be thrown down.

⁷ And they asked him saying, Teacher, when then shall these things be; and what [is] the sign when these things are going to take place?

⁸ And he said, See that ye be not led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying, *I* am [he], and the time is drawn nigh: go ye not [therefore] after them.

⁹ And when ye shall hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end is not immediately.

¹⁰ Then he said to them, Nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;

¹¹ there shall be both great earthquakes in different places, and famines and pestilences; and there shall be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

¹² But before all these things they shall lay their hands upon you and persecute you, delivering [you] up to synagogues and prisons, bringing [you] before kings and governors on account of my name;

¹³ but it shall turn out to you for a testimony.

¹⁴ Settle therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand [your] defence,

¹⁵ for *I* will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your opposers shall not be able to reply to or resist.

¹⁶ But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death [some] from among you,

¹⁷ and ye will be hated of all for my name's sake.

¹⁸ And a hair of your head shall in no wise perish.

¹⁹ By your patient endurance gain your souls.

²⁰ But when ye see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that its desolation is drawn nigh.

²¹ Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of it depart out, and those who are in the country not enter into it;

²² for these are days of avenging, that all the things that are written may be accomplished.

²³ But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.

²⁴ And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of [the] nations until [the] times of [the] nations be fulfilled.

²⁵ And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity [at] the roar of the sea and rolling waves,

²⁶ men ready to die through fear and expectation of what is coming on the habitable earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

²⁷ And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

²⁸ But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws nigh.

²⁹ And he spoke a parable to them: Behold the fig-tree and all the trees;

³⁰ when they already sprout, ye know of your own selves, [on] looking [at them], that already the summer is near.

³¹ So also *ye*, when ye see these things take place, know that the kingdom of God is near.

³² Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall in no wise pass away until all come to pass.

³³ The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away.

³⁴ But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares;

³⁵ for as a snare shall it come upon all them that dwell upon the face of the whole earth.

³⁶ Watch therefore, praying at every season, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

³⁷ And by day he was teaching in the temple, and by night, going out, he remained abroad on the mountain called [the mount] of Olives;

³⁸ and all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.