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.

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21 to fulfill 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 fulfill 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:

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The Proclamation of Cyrus

(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:

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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.

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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:

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:15 Or lifetime

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