Jeremiah 25:11

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

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.

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.

English Standard Version
This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon 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.

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.

Amplified Bible
'This whole land will be a waste and a horror, and these nations will serve 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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And this whole land shalbe desolate, and an astonishment, and these nations shall serue the King of Babel seuentie yeeres.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Revised Standard Version
This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

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.

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.

Contextual Overview

⁸The verdict of God -of-the-Angel-Armies on all this: "Because you have refused to listen to what I've said, I'm stepping in. I'm sending for the armies out of the north headed by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant in this, and I'm setting them on this land and people and even the surrounding countries. I'm devoting the whole works to total destruction—a horror to top all the horrors in history. And I'll banish every sound of joy—singing, laughter, marriage festivities, genial workmen, candlelit suppers. The whole landscape will be one vast wasteland. These countries will be in subjection to the king of Babylon for seventy years. ¹²"Once the seventy years is up, I'll punish the king of Babylon and the whole nation of Babylon for their sin. Then they'll be the wasteland. Everything that I said I'd do to that country, I'll do—everything that's written in this book, everything Jeremiah preached against all the godless nations. Many nations and great kings will make slaves of the Babylonians, paying them back for everything they've done to others. They won't get by with anything." God 's Decree.

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'll make you a great nation and bless you. I'll make you famous; you'll be a blessing. I'll bless those who bless you; those who curse you I'll curse. All the families of the Earth will be blessed through you."

Genesis 16:14
That's how that desert spring got named "God-Alive-Sees-Me Spring." That spring is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 17:19
But God said, "That's not what I mean. Your wife, Sarah, will have a baby, a son. Name him Isaac (Laughter). I'll establish my covenant with him and his descendants, a covenant that lasts forever.

Genesis 24:62
Isaac was living in the Negev. He had just come back from a visit to Beer Lahai Roi. In the evening he went out into the field; while meditating he looked up and saw camels coming. When Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel and asked the servant, "Who is that man out in the field coming toward us?" "That is my master." She took her veil and covered herself.

Genesis 50:24
At the end, Joseph said to his brothers, "I am ready to die. God will most certainly pay you a visit and take you out of this land and back to the land he so solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

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.