And the angel of the Lord answered, and said: O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Juda, with which thou hast been angry? this is now the seventieth year.

the angel.

Zechariah 1:8,10,11 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees, that were in the bottom: and behind him were horses, red, speckled, and white. . . .

Exodus 23:20-23 Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared. . . .

Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

Hebrews 7:25 Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us.

how.

Psalm 74:10 How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?

Psalm 69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:

Psalm 102:13 Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.

Isaiah 64:9-12 Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people. . . .

Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy and True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

thou hast.

Zechariah 7:5 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?

2 Chronicles 36:21 That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.

Jeremiah 25:11,12 And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment: and all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. . . .

Jeremiah 29:10 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.

Daniel 9:2 The first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by books the number of the years, concerning which the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, the prophet, that seventy years should be accomplished of the desolation of Jerusalem.