Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

So shall all this land become a desolation, an astonishment, And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon, seventy years.

New American Standard Bible

This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon 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.

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 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.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

All this land was for a waste, for a desolation, and these nations served the king of Babel 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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

and an astonishment
שׁמּה 
Shammah 
Usage: 39

גּי גּוי 
Gowy 
Usage: 558

עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

the king
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

of Babylon
בּבל 
babel 
Usage: 262

שׁבעים 
Shib`iym 
Usage: 91

Context Readings

Seventy Years Of Servitude

10 And I will banish from among them - The voice of joy, 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: 11 So shall all this land become a desolation, an astonishment, And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon, seventy years. 12 And it shall some to pass - When the seventy years are fulfilled, I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, Declareth Yahweh their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans, - and I will turn it into age-abiding desolations.

Cross References

Daniel 9:2

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived by the writings, - the number of the years, as to which the word of Yahweh came unto Jeremiah the prophet, to fulfil the desolations of Jerusalem, seventy years.

Zechariah 7:5

Speak thou unto all the people of the land, and unto the priests, saying, - When ye fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh, even these seventy years, did ye, really fast, unto, me?

2 Chronicles 36:21-22

to fulfil the word of God, by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had paid off her sabbaths, - all the days of her lying desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.

Isaiah 23:15-17

So shall it be in that day, That Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, According to the days of a certain king: At the end of seventy years, shall it befall Tyre according to the song of the harlot:

Jeremiah 4:27

For, thus, saith Yahweh, A desolation, shall all the land become - Nevertheless a full end, will I not make.

Jeremiah 12:11-12

It hath been made a desolation, It hath mourned unto me as desolate, - All the land hath become a desolation, For, no man, layeth it to heart.

Jeremiah 25:12

And it shall some to pass - When the seventy years are fulfilled, I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, Declareth Yahweh their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans, - and I will turn it into age-abiding desolations.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the messenger of Yahweh responded, and said, O Yahweh of hosts! How long wilt, thou, not have compassion upon Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, - against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years?

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