2 Chronicles 36:20-22

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁰ Whosoever escaped the sword, was led into Babylon, and there served the king and his sons till the reign of the king of Persia.

²¹ That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.

²² But in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, to fulfill the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremias, the Lord stirred up the heart of Cyrus king of the Persians who commanded it to be proclaimed through all his kingdom, and by writing also, saying: