¹¹ This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.^{(A) 12} When the seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, and I will make it a ruin forever.^(B)

²¹ This fulfilled the word of the Lord through Jeremiah,^(A) and the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation^(B) until seventy years were fulfilled.

² in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be seventy.^(A)