Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
All this land was for a waste, for a desolation, and these nations served the king of Babel seventy years.
New American Standard Bible
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.
Holman Bible
This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.
International Standard Version
This entire land will be a desolation and a waste, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
A Conservative Version
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment. And these nations shall 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.
Amplified
This whole land will be a waste and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon
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.
Darby Translation
And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
King James 2000
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Modern King James verseion
And this whole land shall be a ruin and a waste. And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and this whole land shall become a wilderness, and they shall serve the said people and the king of Babylon, three score years and ten.
NET Bible
This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.'
New Heart English Bible
This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
The Emphasized Bible
So shall all this land become a desolation, an astonishment, And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon, seventy years.
Webster
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall 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.
Youngs 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.
Themes
the Ammonites » Predictions respecting » Subjection to babylon
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Captivity of the jews by
Captivity » Of judah in babylon, prophecy of
Desolation » Why desolation comes
Happiness » Of the wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Happiness of the The Wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Years of captivity
Prophecy » Miscellaneous, fulfilled » Captivity of the jews predicted and fulfilled
Seventy » The jews in captivity in babylon for seventy years
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 25:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Seventy Years Of Servitude
10 And I destroyed from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of the two millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 All this land was for a waste, for a desolation, and these nations served the king of Babel seventy years. 12 And it was when seventy years were filled up, I will review over the king of Babel and upon this nation, says Jehovah, their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans, and I set it for eternal desolations
Cross References
Daniel 9:2
In one year to the kingdom, I Daniel understood by books the number of years which the word of Jehovah was to Jeremiah the prophet, to fill up for the desolations of Jerusalem seventy years.
Zechariah 7:5
Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh, and this seventy years, fasting, fasted ye to me, me?
2 Chronicles 36:21-22
To fill up the word of Jehovah in the mouth of Jeremiah, till the land delighted in her Sabbaths: all the days she was laid waste she rested, to complete seventy years.
Isaiah 23:15-17
And it was in that day, and Tyre was forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: from the end of seventy years it shall be to Tyre as the song of a harlot.
Jeremiah 4:27
For thus said Jehovah, All the earth shall be a desert; and I will not make a completion.
Jeremiah 12:11-12
Setting her for a desolation, she mourned to me; all the land was set a desolation, for no man put upon his heart
Jeremiah 25:12
And it was when seventy years were filled up, I will review over the king of Babel and upon this nation, says Jehovah, their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans, and I set it for eternal desolations
Zechariah 1:12
And the messenger of Jehovah will answer and say, O Jehovah of armies, how long wilt thou not compassionate Jerusalem and the cities of Judah with whom thou wert very angry this seventy years?