⁶² and say, ‘O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so ^(A)that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be ^(B)desolate for ever.’

¹² Then after ^(A)seventy years are completed, ^(B)I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, ^(C)the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, ^(D)making the land an everlasting waste.