Original sentence: The conquest of Jerusalem by Babylon and the exile of its elite in 586 BCE was the period of the meteoric rise of Persia under its king Cyrus the Great – in 559 BCE he succeeded his father as ruler of a small vassal kingdom in modern eastern Iran, by 540 he ruled an empire stretching from the Mediterranean to Central Asia, and in 539 BCE he conquered Babylon
Edited sentence: The conquest of Jerusalem by Babylon and the exile of its elite in 586 BCE was the period of the meteoric rise of Persia under its king Cyrus the Great – in 559 BCE he succeeded his father as ruler of a small vassal kingdom in modern eastern Iran, by 540 he ruled an empire stretching from the Mediterranean to Central Asia, and in 539 he conquered Babylon.This background forms the context of Trito-Isaiah