Daniel 9:20-22

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Seventy Weeks

²⁰ While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy hill of my God; ²¹ while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice. ²² He came^[a] and he said to me, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you wisdom and understanding.