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They burned the house of the Lord, broke down the walls of Jerusalem, burned their towers with fire,
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and utterly destroyed all its glorious things. The survivors he led away to Babylon with the sword,
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and they were servants to him and to his sons until the Persians began to reign, in fulfillment of the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah,
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saying, "Until the land has enjoyed its sabbaths, it shall keep sabbath all the time of its desolation until the completion of seventy years."
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