Jeremiah 25:11

Jeremiah chapter 25 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

v.11This passage

v.12And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 4:27

    For thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

  • Zechariah 7:5

    Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

  • Jeremiah 25:12

    And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.

  • Daniel 9:2

    in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:21

    to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

  • Zechariah 1:12

    Then the angel of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?