Jeremiah 25:11

Translations

Modern

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Traditional

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

Literal

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

Latin

Et erit universa terra hæc in solitudinem, et in stuporem: et servient omnes gentes istæ regi Babylonis septuaginta annis.

Original

Hebrew

English

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Notes

Jeremiah 25:11

seventy years: This is the first time a specific period is assigned to the Exile. The prediction was fulfilled either from 605 BC (the first exile to Babylon) to around 538 BC (when Cyrus allowed the exiles to return to Judea), or from 586 BC (the destruction of the Temple) to 515 BC (the dedication of the Second Temple). Alternatively, the number can be seen as symbolic, representing God's judgment on Jerusalem lasting a perfect lifetime, exactly as God determined.

Jeremiah 25:1–14

The Lord had been patient with Jerusalem's rebellion and refusal to listen, but now it was time for judgment.

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah Nebuchadnezzar II The Lord of Nations

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Daniel 9:2
…in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
Zechariah 1:12
Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
Zechariah 7:5
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
2 Chronicles 36:21–22
So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 25:12
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
Jeremiah 4:27
For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
Isaiah 23:15–17
At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
Jeremiah 12:11–12
They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

Places

Babylon: Ancient Mesopotamian city, capital of Babylonian Empire, site of the Tower of Babel

Glossary

Assumption of Moses Book of Jeremiah Jehoiakim Jeremiah (Person) Jerusalem Numbers and Numerology Zechariah, Book of

Topics

Babylon: Empire of Prophecies of Conquests By Babylon: Predictions Respecting: Captivity of the Jews By Captivity of Judah in Babylon, Prophecy of Happiness of the Wicked: Often Interrupted by Judgments Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Prophecy: Miscellaneous, Fulfilled: Captivity of the Jews Predicted and Fulfilled Seventy: The Jews in Captivity in Babylon for Seventy Years The Ammonites: Predictions Respecting: Subjection to Babylon The Happiness of the Wicked: Often Interrupted by Judgments

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