I have selected three texts. the first is the NASB–New American Standard Bible. It is supposedly the most literal translation to English amongst traditional American English translations. The second is from an interlinear Bible, which is a direct translation from Hebrew to English–as direct as possible. You will notice the way sentences are rendered differently in Hebrew than in English. Everything is “out of order,” according to the way we read and speak English today. The third rendering is from an interlinear Hebrew to English Bible as well, but the words and sentences have been ordered according to modern English standards. It is very, very similar to the second rendering, it is just put in order according to English grammar.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+9&version=NASB

24 “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the wrongdoing, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. 25 So you are to know and understand that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until Messiah the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with streets and moat, even in times of distress. 26 Then after the sixty-two weeks, the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined. 27 And he will confirm a covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come the one who makes desolate, until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, gushes forth on the one who makes desolate.”

https://www.blueletterbible.org/tools/interlinear/wlc-kjv/dan/9/1-27

city, and upon thy people upon are determined Seventy weeks 24
of sins, and to make and end the transgression, to finish thy holy
everlasting righteousness, and to bring in for iniquity, and to make reconciliation
the most Holy. And to anoint and prophecy, the vision and to seal up
of the commandment the going forth from (that) and understand, Know therefore 25
(shall be) the Prince the Messiah unto Jerusalem and to build to restore
shall be built again, and two threescore and weeks: seven weeks,
times. Even in troublous and the wall, the street
but not Messiah shall be cut off, and two threescore weeks And after 26
of the prince the people shall destroy and the sanctuary; and the city for himself:
of the war the end and unto with a flood, (shall be) and the end thereof that shall come
desolations are determined.
and in the midst one for week: with many the covenant And he shall confirm 27
the overspreading and for and the oblation the sacrifice he shall cause to cease, of the week
and that determined the consummation, even until he shall make (it) desolate, of abominations
the desolate. Upon shall be poured

http://www.qbible.com/Hebrew-old-testament/daniel/9.html

24 Seventy weeks are determined upon they people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem unto Messiah The Prince (shall be) seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof (shall be) with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make (it) desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

It is very important that we have clear rendering because this series of verses is one of the most debated series of verses there are in religious scholarship today. There are a few entirely different schools of eschatology that hinge on the interpretation of these three verses. I puzzled, specifically, over verse 27 for many years. Renderings in traditional English translations appear to me to over complicate what the Hebrew texts say, according to the interlinear translations.

Going forward, I will use the third selection for analysis. I plan to go verse by verse. These three verses in Daniel, in my view, are what all Biblical prophecy pivots on. They are the centerpiece in history between the covenant God made with Israel in the Old Testament and the covenant Jesus Christ makes with the world in the New Testament. They also set up a method of counting time that appears to repeat itself in several instances in the book of Revelation. When this method of counting is compared against events in world history it makes a very compelling narrative in the Scriptures concerning prophecy and witness that should strengthen any believer’s faith.