In the first year of Darius Ibn Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, 2in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years of which the word of Allah came to Armiya the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years. 3I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. 4I prayed to Allah my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments, 5we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances; 6neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. 8Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. 9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him; 10neither have we obeyed the voice of Allah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. 11Yes, all Israel have transgressed your Taurat, even turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore has the curse been poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the Taurat of Musa the servant of God; for we have sinned against him. 12He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky has not been done as has been done on Jerusalem. 13As it is written in the Taurat of Musa, all this evil is come on us: yet have we not entreated the favour of Allah our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth. 14Therefore has Allah watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Allah our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice. 15Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten you renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly. 16Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach to all who are around us. 17Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. 18My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake. 19Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; do not defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name. 20While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Allahmy God for the holy mountain of my God; 21yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Jibril, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering. 22He instructed me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am now come forth to give you wisdom and understanding. 23At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went forth, and I am come to tell you; for you are dearly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision. 24Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. 25Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to al-Masih the prince, shall be seven ‘sevens’, and sixty-two ‘sevens’: it shall be rebuilt, with street and moat, even in troubled times. 26After the sixty-two ‘sevens’ al-Masih shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of a ruler who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined. 27He shall make a firm covenant with many for one ‘seven’: and in the midst of the ‘seven’ he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on a wing of the temple he shall set up an abomination that causes desolation[1]; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate.
[1] 9:27 Quoted in the Injil, Matthew 24:15.