Jeremiah 25:11
9 behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
10 Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
12 But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
13 I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
- KJV
- And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- WEB
- This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- ASV
- And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- DARBY
- And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- BLB
- And all this land will become as a desolation, as a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- ÅB
- Og hele dette land skal bli til en ørken, til en ødemark, og disse folkeslag skal tjene Babels konge i sytti år.
- OTB
- Hele dette landet vil bli en øde ørken, og disse nasjonene vil tjene kongen av Babylon i sytti år.
- B1930
- Og hele dette land skal bli til en ørken, til en ødemark, og disse folkeslag skal tjene Babels konge i sytti år.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Daniel 9:2
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
Read in contextZechariah 1:12
Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
Read in contextJeremiah 25:12
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
Read in context2 Chronicles 36:21–22
So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.
Read in contextZechariah 7:5
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
Read in contextIsaiah 23:15–17
At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
Read in contextJeremiah 4:27
For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
Read in contextJeremiah 12:11–12
They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
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