1 Esdras 1:53-55

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⁵³ and utterly destroyed all its glorious things. Nebuchadnezzar^[a] led the survivors away to Babylon with the sword, ⁵⁴ and they were servants to him and to his sons until the Persians began to reign, in fulfillment of the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah,^{(A) 55} saying, “Until the land has enjoyed its Sabbaths, it shall keep Sabbath all the time of its desolation until the completion of seventy years.”^(B)