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Complete Jewish Bible

Jeremiah 25:11

This entire land will become a ruin, a waste; and these nations will serve the king of Bavel for seventy years.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Babylon;   Captivity;   Happiness;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Prophecy;   Seventy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Nebuchadnezzar;   Periods and Numbers;   Seventy;   The Topic Concordance - Desolation;   Disobedience;   Idolatry;   Judges;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ammonites, the;   Babylon;   Happiness of the Wicked, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Captivity;   Egypt;   Lamp;   Moabites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Exile;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Persecution;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Moab;   Number;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kir-Hareseth;   Seventy Years;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;   Number;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Apocalypse;   Fulfilment;   Mill-Stone ;   Numbers;   Numbers (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Chronology;   Jerusalem ;   Jubilee;   Judah, the Kingdom of;   Tyre, Tyrus;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;   Lamp;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Number;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moab;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Astonishment;   Captivity;   Jeremiah (2);   Number;   Seventy Years;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Daniel, Book of;   Eschatology;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And this whole land shalbe desolate, and an astonishment, and these nations shall serue the King of Babel seuentie yeeres.
Christian Standard Bible®
This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Hebrew Names Version
This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Bavel seventy years.
Darby Translation
And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Easy-to-Read Version
That whole area will be an empty desert. All these people will be slaves of the king of Babylon for 70 years.
Amplified Bible
'This whole land will be a waste and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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.
Berean Standard Bible
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Contemporary English Version
This country will be as empty as a desert, because I will make all of you the slaves of the king of Babylonia for seventy years.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and a waste; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
King James Version (1611)
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment, and these nations shal serue the king of Babylon seuentie yeeres.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.
English Revised Version
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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.
Literal Translation
And this whole land shall be a waste and a horror; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
New Century Version
That whole area will be an empty desert, and these nations will be slaves of the king of Babylon for seventy years.
New English Translation
This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.'
New 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.
New Living Translation
This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
New Life Bible
This whole land will be a waste and a cause of fear. And these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
New Revised Standard
This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shall all this land become a desolation, an astonishment, And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon, seventy years.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment: and all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
George Lamsa Translation
And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Good News Translation
This whole land will be left in ruins and will be a shocking sight, and the neighboring nations will serve the king of Babylonia for seventy years.
New American Standard Bible
'This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Webster's Bible Translation
And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And this whole lande shall become a wildernesse and astonished: and these nations shal serue the king of Babylon threscore yeres and ten.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And al the lond therof schal be in to wildirnesse, and in to wondring; and alle these folkis schulen serue the king of Babiloyne seuenti yeer.
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.
World English Bible
This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Revised Standard Version
This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Update Bible Version
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Bible in Basic English
All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& this whole londe shal become a wildernes, & they shall serue the sayde people and the kinge of Babilon, thre score yeares and ten.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Legacy Standard Bible
This whole land will be a waste place and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Contextual Overview

8 "Therefore, here is what Adonai -Tzva'ot says: ‘Because you haven't paid attention to what I've been saying, 9 I'm going to send for all the families of the north,' says Adonai , ‘and for my servant N'vukhadretzar the king of Bavel, and bring them against this land, against its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them, making them an object of horror and ridicule, a perpetual ruin. 10 Moreover, I will silence among them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bridegroom and bride, the grinding of millstones and the light of lamps. 11 This entire land will become a ruin, a waste; and these nations will serve the king of Bavel for seventy years. 12 But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Bavel and that nation for their sin,' says Adonai , ‘and I will turn the land of the Kasdim into everlasting ruins. 13 I will inflict on that land all my words that I have decreed against it, everything written in this book, in which Yirmeyahu has prophesied against all the nations. 14 For they too will become slaves to many nations and to powerful kings; I will pay them back according to their deeds and the work of their own hands.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

seventy: This prophecy was delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and began to be accomplished immediately; and it was exactly seventy years from this time to the proclamation of Cyrus for the return of the Jews. Jeremiah 25:12, 2 Chronicles 36:21, 2 Chronicles 36:22, Isaiah 23:15-17, Daniel 9:2, Zechariah 1:12, Zechariah 7:5

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:32 - And I Isaiah 5:6 - I will lay Isaiah 28:22 - a consumption Isaiah 32:10 - Many days and years Isaiah 49:24 - lawful captive Jeremiah 9:11 - desolate Jeremiah 25:18 - to make Jeremiah 27:7 - all Jeremiah 27:22 - until Jeremiah 44:2 - a desolation Jeremiah 44:22 - your land Jeremiah 51:20 - break Ezekiel 15:8 - I will Ezekiel 29:11 - forty Ezekiel 33:28 - I will lay Daniel 5:26 - God Micah 7:13 - General Habakkuk 3:2 - in the

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation, I will bless you, and I will make your name great; and you are to be a blessing.
Genesis 16:14
This is why the well has been called Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i [well of the one who lives and sees]; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 17:19
God answered, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you are to call him Yitz'chak [laughter]. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
Genesis 22:17
I will most certainly bless you; and I will most certainly increase your descendants to as many as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the cities of their enemies,
Genesis 24:62
Meanwhile, Yitz'chak, one evening after coming along the road from Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i — he was living in the Negev —
Genesis 50:24
Yosef said to his brothers, "I am dying. But God will surely remember you and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya‘akov."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this whole land shall be a desolation,.... Not only the city of Jerusalem, but all Judea, without inhabitants, or very few, and shall be uncultivated, and become barren and unfruitful:

[and] an astonishment; to all other nations, and to all persons that pass through, beholding the desolations of it:

and other nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years; both the Jews, and other nations of Egypt, reckoning from the date of this prophecy, the fourth year of Jehoiakim's reign, when Daniel and others were carried captive, Daniel 1:1; to the first year of Cyrus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seventy years - The duration of the Babylonian empire was really a little short of this period. But the 70 years are usually calculated down to the time when the Jews were permitted to return to their country (compare Jeremiah 29:10).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 25:11. Shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. — As this prophecy was delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and in the first of Nebuchadnezzar, and began to be accomplished in the same year, (for then Nebuchadnezzar invaded Judea, and took Jerusalem,) seventy years from this time will reach down to the first year of Cyrus, when he made his proclamation for the restoration of the Jews, and the rebuilding of Jerusalem. See the note on Isaiah 13:19, where the subject is farther considered in relation to the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, and the city of Babylon.


 
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