KJV King James Version
And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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Jeremiah 25:11
And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
WEB World English Bible
This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
ASV American Standard Version
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And all this land hath been for a waste, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 25
8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, [even] all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
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וְהָֽיְתָה֙H1961 · ha.yahto beכָּל־H3605 · kolallהָאָ֣רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetהַזֹּ֔אתH2063 · zotthisלְחָרְבָּ֖הH2723 · chor.bahdesolationלְשַׁמָּ֑הH8047 · sham.mahhorror: destroyedוְעָ֨בְד֜וּH5647 · a.vadto serveהַגּוֹיִ֥םH1471 · goynationהָאֵ֛לֶּהH428 · el.lehtheseאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]מֶ֥לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingבָּבֶ֖לH894 · ba.velBabylonשִׁבְעִ֥יםH7657 · shiv.imseventyשָׁנָֽה׃H8141 · sha.nehyear
Cross-references
Daniel 9:2In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.Zechariah 1:12Then 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 Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?2 Chronicles 36:21-22To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.Jeremiah 25:12And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.Zechariah 7:5Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh [month], even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, [even] to me?Isaiah 23:15-17And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.Jeremiah 12:11-12They have made it desolate, [and being] desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth [it] to heart.Jeremiah 4:27For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
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