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:

2 “SPEAK to the heart of Jerusalem+ and call out to her that her military service* has been fulfilled,+ that her error has been paid off.+ For from the hand of Jehovah she has received a full amount* for all her sins.”+

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.+