Summary ĭaniel reads in the "books" that the desolation of Jerusalem must last for seventy years according to the prophetic words of Jeremiah (verse 2), and prays for God to act on behalf of his people and city (verses 3–19). James Alan Montgomery referred to the history of this prophecy's interpretation as the "dismal swamp" of critical exegesis. The prophecy has been the subject of "intense exegetical activity" since the Second Temple period. The Prophecy of Seventy Weeks is the narrative in chapter 9 of the Book of Daniel in which Daniel prays to God to act on behalf of his people and city ( Judeans and Jerusalem), and receives a detailed but cryptic prophecy of "seventy weeks" by the angel Gabriel.
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