19. He burnt down the Temple and the city, with all its palaces and its wealth, and broke down the city wall.
20. He took all the survivors to Babylonia, where they served him and his descendants as slaves until the rise of the Persian Empire.
21. And so what the Lord had foretold through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: “The land will lie desolate for seventy years, to make up for the Sabbath rest that has not been observed.”