Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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.

Webster

And 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 lamp. 11 This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.


Cross References

Daniel 9:2

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

Zechariah 7:5

"Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

2 Chronicles 36:21-22

to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: [for] as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

Isaiah 23:15-17

It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says Yahweh, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

Jeremiah 12:11-12

They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

Jeremiah 25:12

It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"

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