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Jeremiah 25:12

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25:12“ ‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation31 for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon32 an everlasting ruin.33 I, the Lord, affirm it!34

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Footnotes

  1. 31 Heb “that nation.”
  2. 32 Heb “the land of the Chaldeans.” See the study note on for the use of the term “Chaldeans.”
  3. 33 Heb “I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, oracle of the Lord, their iniquity even upon the land of the Chaldeans and I will make it everlasting ruins.” The sentence has been restructured to avoid ambiguity and to conform the style more to contemporary English. Compare Isa 13:19–22 and Jer 50:39–40.
  4. 34 Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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)

“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

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

“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 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.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.