^11 (A)This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and ^(B)these nations shall serve the king of Babylon ^(C)seventy years.

² in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to ^(A)the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

¹² Then ^(A)the angel of the Lord said, ^(B)‘O Lord of hosts, ^(C)how long will you ^(D)have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these ^(E)seventy years?’

⁵ “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in ^(A)the fifth month and in ^(B)the seventh, for these ^(C)seventy years, ^(D)was it ^(E)for me that you fasted?

¹² Then after ^(A)seventy years are completed, ^(B)I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, ^(C)the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, ^(D)making the land an everlasting waste.

²¹ to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had ^(A)enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate ^(B)it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

The Proclamation of Cyrus

^22 (C)Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, ^(D)that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, ^(E)the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:

²⁷ For thus says the Lord, “The whole land shall be a desolation; ^(A)yet I will not make a full end.

¹⁵ In that day Tyre will be forgotten for ^(A)seventy years, like the days^[a] of one king. At the end of ^(B)seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

¹⁷ At the end of ^(C)seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and ^(D)will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.