¹¹ And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.^[a]

The Cup of Wrath

¹² And then^[a] when the seventy years^[b] are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares^[c] Yahweh, ‘for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it an everlasting waste.^[d]

¹⁰ For thus says Yahweh, ‘As soon as the time has passed,^[a] seventy years^[b] for Babylon, I will attend to you, and I will fulfill my good word to you, to bring you back to this place.

² in the first year of his kingship I, Daniel, observed in the scrolls the number of the years that it was that were to be fulfilled according to the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet for the devastation of Jerusalem—seventy years.

¹² The angel of Yahweh answered and said, “O Yahweh of hosts, how long^[a] will you have no compassion on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which you showed fury these seventy years?”^[b]

⁵ “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?