Parallel Verses

Webster

And this whole land shall be a desolation, and 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.

The Emphasized Bible

So shall all this land become a desolation, 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 Moreover 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. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 And 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.

Cross References

Daniel 9:2

In the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, concerning which the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

Zechariah 7:5

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

2 Chronicles 36:21-22

To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

Isaiah 23:15-17

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as a harlot.

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

Jeremiah 12:11-12

They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth to me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

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 the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

Zechariah 1:12

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

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