This fulfilled the word of the Lord through Jeremiah, and the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation until seventy years were fulfilled.
Jeremiah 29:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For this is what the Lord says: ‘When seventy years for Babylon are complete, I will attend to you and will confirm my promise concerning you to restore you to this place. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For thus says the Lord, When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you and keep My good promise to you, causing you to return to this place. American Standard Version (1901) For thus saith Jehovah, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. Common English Bible The LORD proclaims: When Babylon’s seventy years are up, I will come and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place. Catholic Public Domain Version For thus says the Lord: When the seventy years will begin to be completed in Babylon, I will visit you. And I will raise up over you my good word, so that I may lead you back to this place. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For thus saith the Lord: When the seventy years shall begin to be accomplished in Babylon, I will visit you: and I will perform my good word in your favour, to bring you again to this place. |
This fulfilled the word of the Lord through Jeremiah, and the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation until seventy years were fulfilled.
In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord roused the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and also to put it in writing:
In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord roused the spirit of King Cyrus to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and to put it in writing:
This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: ‘The Lord, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah.
This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
When the seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #“the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, and I will make it a ruin for ever.
“They will be taken to Babylon and will remain there until I attend to them again.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.” ’
All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his own land comes, and then many nations and great kings will enslave him.
For he has sent word to us in Babylon, claiming, ‘The exile will be long. Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.’ ” ’
this is what the Lord says: I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. There will not be even one of his descendants living among these people, nor will any ever see the good that I will bring to my people #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #for he has preached rebellion against the Lord.” ’
for look, the days are coming’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘when I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘I will restore them to the land I gave to their ancestors and they will possess it.’
‘Look, the days are coming’ – this is the Lord’s declaration – ‘when I will fulfil the good promise that I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
‘Therefore say, “This is what the Lord God says: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be seventy.
The coastland will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; they will find pasture there. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the Lord their God will return to them and restore their fortunes.
Then the angel of the Lord responded, ‘How long, Lord of Armies, will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that you have been angry with these seventy years? ’
‘Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?
She and her daughters-in-law set out to return from the territory of Moab, because she had heard in Moab that the Lord had paid attention to his people’s need by providing them with food.