³⁴ Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate^(A) and you are in the country of your enemies;^(B) then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. ³⁵ All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest^(C) it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

³⁶ “‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf^(D) will put them to flight.^(E) They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.^{(F) 37} They will stumble over one another^(G) as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.^{(H) 38} You will perish^(I) among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.^{(J) 39} Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’^(K) sins they will waste away.^(L)

⁴⁰ “‘But if they will confess^(M) their sins^(N) and the sins of their ancestors^(O)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, ⁴¹ which made me hostile^(P) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts^(Q) are humbled^(R) and they pay^(S) for their sin, ⁴² I will remember my covenant with Jacob^(T) and my covenant with Isaac^(U) and my covenant with Abraham,^(V) and I will remember the land. ⁴³ For the land will be deserted^(W) by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected^(X) my laws and abhorred my decrees.^(Y)

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