^11 (A)This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and ^(B)these nations shall serve the king of Babylon ^(C)seventy years.

²¹ to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had ^(A)enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate ^(B)it kept Sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.

The Proclamation of Cyrus

^22 (C)Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, ^(D)that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, ^(E)the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:

The Proclamation of Cyrus

1 ^(A)In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, ^(B)that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so ^(C)that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:

² in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to ^(A)the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

¹⁵ In that day Tyre will be forgotten for ^(A)seventy years, like the days^[a] of one king. At the end of ^(B)seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute: