²¹ This fulfilled the word of the Lord through Jeremiah,^(A) and the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation^(B) until seventy years were fulfilled.

¹⁵ On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years – the lifespan of one king. At the end of seventy years, what the song says about the prostitute will happen to Tyre:

¹⁰ For this is what the Lord says: ‘When seventy years for Babylon are complete,^(A) I will attend to you and will confirm my promise concerning you to restore you to this place.

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

¹² Then the angel of the Lord responded, ‘How long, Lord of Armies, will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that you have been angry with these seventy years? ’^(A)

⁵ ‘Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?^(A)