11 This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon ^vseventy years.

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

12 Then the angel of the Lord said, ‘O Lord of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these ⁿseventy years?’