²¹ This is exactly the message of God that Jeremiah had preached: the desolate land put to an extended sabbath rest, a seventy-year Sabbath rest making up for all the unkept Sabbaths.

²¹ to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah , until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths . All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy years were complete .