^11 (A)This whole land will be a waste place and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon ^(B)seventy years.

Punishment Against Babylon

¹² ‘Then it will be ^(C)when seventy years are fulfilled, that I will ^(D)punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares Yahweh, ‘for their iniquity, even the land of the Chaldeans; and ^(E)I will make it an everlasting desolation.

^21 (A)to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until ^(B)the land had made up for its sabbaths. ^(C)All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath ^[a](D)until seventy years were fulfilled.

² in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, discerned in the books the ^(A)number of the years concerning which the word of ^[a]Yahweh came to ^(B)Jeremiah the prophet for the fulfillment of the laying waste of Jerusalem, namely, ^(C)seventy years.