¹¹And this whole land shall be ^sa desolation, and ^oan astonishment; and ^tthese nations shall serve the king of Babylon ^useventy years. ¹²And it shall come to pass, ^vwhen ^*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 ^wwill make it perpetual desolations.

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sver. 18. See ch. 22:5.
over. 18. See ch. 18:16. So ch. 4:7.
tch. 27:3, 6. & 28:14. Comp. ver. 9.
uComp. Isai. 23:15.
v 2 Chr. 36:21, 22. Ezra 1:1. ch. 29:10. Dan. 9:2. Zech. 1:12. & 7:5. So ch. 27:7, 22.
*Beginning about B.C. 606, [2 Kin. 24:1] ending [about] B.C. 536.
†Heb. visit upon. See ch. 9:25.
wch. 51:26, 62. Ezek. 35:9. Zeph. 2:9. (ver. 9). So ch. 50:3, 13, 23, 39, 40, 45. Comp. Isai. 13:19. & 14:23. & 21:1, &c. & 47:1.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

“But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate forever.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. When the seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, and I will make it a ruin forever.

NLTNew Living Translation

This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

“Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the Lord. “I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

And then when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares Yahweh, ‘for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it an everlasting waste.