"So whenever you see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where he must not"--he who reads, let him understand--"then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and hem you in from every side,

"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has drawn near.

And one week shall establish the covenant with many. And in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink offering shall be taken away: and on the temple [shall be] the abomination of desolations; and at the end of the time an end shall be put to the desolation.

And from the time of the removal of the perpetual sacrifice, when the abomination of desolation shall be set up, [there shall be] a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

And the man said to me, Look with your eyes at him whom you have seen, son of man, and hear with your ears, and lay up in your heart all things that I show you; for you have come in here that I might show you, and you shall show all things that you see to the house of Israel.

At the beginning of your supplication the word came forth, and I have come to tell you; for you are a man much beloved: therefore consider the matter, [and] understand the vision:

And you shall know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem, until Christ the Prince, [there shall be] seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; and then [the time] shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.

And he said to me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to afflict yourself before the Lord your God, your words were heard, and I have come because of your words.

And I have come to inform you of all that shall befall your people in the last days, for the vision [refers] to [many] days yet [to come].

On account of this we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and who keep the things having been written in it; for the time is near.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." '"