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Jeremiah 25:11

And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jeremiah 25:11 · King James Version

In other versions

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

    ASV

  • 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.

    BBE

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

    DBY

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

    WEB

  • And all this land hath been for a waste, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years.

    YLT

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

    ENG

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

    WBT

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

    BSB

In context

9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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 candle.

11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

12And 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.

13And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

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