21 to fulfill Jehovah’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah,+ until the land had paid off its sabbaths.+ All the days of lying desolated it kept sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.+

1 And in the first year of Cyrus*+ the king of Persia, that Jehovah’s word from the mouth of Jeremiah+ might be accomplished, Jehovah roused+ the spirit of Cyrus the king of Persia so that he caused a cry+ to pass through all his realm, and also in writing,+ saying:

22 ‘“To Babylon is where they will be brought+ and there they will continue to be until the day of my turning my attention to them,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah. “And I will bring them up and restore them to this place.”’”+

2 in the first year of his reigning I myself, Daniel, discerned by the books the number of the years concerning which the word of Jehovah* had occurred to Jeremiah the prophet,+ for fulfilling the devastations of Jerusalem,+ [namely,] seventy years.+

12 So the angel of Jehovah answered and said: “O Jehovah of armies, how long will you yourself not show mercy to Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah,+ whom you have denounced these seventy years?”+

5 “Say to all the people of the land* and to the priests, ‘When YOU fasted+ and there was a wailing in the fifth [month] and in the seventh+ [month], and this for seventy years,+ did YOU really fast to me, even me?+