KJV King James Version
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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Jeremiah 25:14
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”
WEB World English Bible
For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
ASV American Standard Version
For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For laid service on them—also them—have many nations and great kings, and I have given recompence to them according to their doing, and according to the work of their hands.
Surrounding context — 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.
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.
15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
17 Then took I the cup at the LORD’S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
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כִּ֣יH3588 · kiforעָֽבְדוּ־H5647 · a.vadto serveבָ֤םH9038 · hemthemגַּם־H1571 · gamalsoהֵ֙מָּה֙H1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)גּוֹיִ֣םH1471 · goynationרַבִּ֔יםH7227 · ravmanyוּמְלָכִ֖יםH4428 · me.lekhkingגְּדוֹלִ֑יםH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeוְשִׁלַּמְתִּ֥יH7999 · sa.lemto completeלָהֶ֛םH9038 · hemthemכְּפָעֳלָ֖םH6467 · po.alworkוּכְמַעֲשֵׂ֥הH4639 · ma.a.sehdeed: workיְדֵיהֶֽם׃ סH3027 · yadhand
Cross-references
Jeremiah 51:6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time of the LORD’S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.Jeremiah 27:7And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.Jeremiah 50:9For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.Jeremiah 50:41Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.Isaiah 45:1-3Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;Isaiah 66:6A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.Isaiah 14:2And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.Daniel 5:28PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.Jeremiah 51:20-28Thou [art] my battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;Revelation 18:20-24Rejoice over her, [thou] heaven, and [ye] holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.Jeremiah 51:35-41The violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.Jeremiah 50:29-34Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.Habakkuk 2:8-16Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and [for] the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.Psalm 137:8O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy [shall he be], that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
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