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Jeremiah 25:11–12

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11This whole country will become a desolate wasteland,d and these nations will servee the king of Babylon seventy years.f

12“But when the seventy yearsg are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylonh and his nation, the land of the Babylonians,b for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolatei forever.

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  1. bOr Chaldeans

Cross references

  1. dSee Lev 26:31, 32; Jer 4:26–27; 12:11–12
  2. eJer 28:14
  3. fSee 2 Ch 36:21
  4. gJer 27:7; 29:10
  5. hSee Ge 10:10; See Ps 137:8
  6. iSee Isa 13:19–22; 14:22–23

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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.

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.

KJV 1900King James Version

And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 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.