And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jer 29:10-14 'For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. The prophet Jeremiah prophesied that the captivity should last for seventy years: It is from the three great prophets, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, that we learn most of the condition of the children of the captivity.