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.+

11 At this I said: “How long, O Jehovah?” Then he said:

22 Listen! A report! It is coming!

28 I will make the land an utterly desolate wasteland,+ and its arrogant pride will be brought to an end, and the mountains of Israel will be desolated,+ with no one passing through.