20 He carried off captive to Babylon those who escaped the sword,+ and they became servants to him+ and his sons until the kingdom* of Persia began to reign,+ 21 to fulfill Jehovah’s word spoken by Jeremiah,+ until the land had paid off its sabbaths.+ All the days it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfill 70 years.+

14 But Zion kept saying:

“Jehovah has abandoned me,+ and Jehovah has forgotten me.”+

‘Zion, for whom no one searches.’”+

 4 The roads to Zion are mourning, because no one is coming to the festival.+

All her gates are desolate;+ her priests are sighing.

Her virgins* are grieving, and she is in bitter anguish.