²⁵ Jeremiah chanted a dirge^(A) over Josiah, and all the male and female singers still speak of Josiah in their dirges today. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Dirges.

¹² He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God and did not humble himself^(A) before the prophet Jeremiah at the Lord’s command.^(B)

The Decree of Cyrus

1 In^(A) the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken through Jeremiah,^(B) the Lord roused the spirit^(C) of King Cyrus to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and to put it in writing:

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)

¹⁷ Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: