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Christian Standard Bible ®

Jeremiah 25:14

For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.’”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Babylon;   Government;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Nation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Nebuchadnezzar;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Idolatry;   Judges;   Recompense/restitution;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ammonites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Egypt;   Moabites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Persecution;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Moab;   Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kir-Hareseth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Peace;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jeremi'ah, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Deed;   Jeremiah (2);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abyss;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
King James Version
For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
English Standard Version
For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
New American Standard Bible
'(For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)'"
New Century Version
Even the Babylonians will have to serve many nations and many great kings. I will give them the punishment they deserve for all their own hands have done."
Amplified Bible
'(For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even the Chaldeans [who enslaved other nations]; and I will repay [all of] them according to their deeds and according to the work of their [own] hands.)'"
World English Bible
For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For many nations, and great Kings shall euen serue themselues of them: thus will I recopense them according to their deedes, and according to the workes of their owne handes.
Legacy Standard Bible
—For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands—'"
Berean Standard Bible
For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.'"
Contemporary English Version
I will pay back the Babylonians for every wrong they have done. Great kings from many other nations will conquer the Babylonians and force them to be slaves.
Complete Jewish Bible
For they too will become slaves to many nations and to powerful kings; I will pay them back according to their deeds and the work of their own hands.'
Darby Translation
For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
Easy-to-Read Version
Yes, the people of Babylon will have to serve many nations and many great kings. I will give them the punishment they deserve for all the things they have done."
George Lamsa Translation
For many nations and great kings shall enslave them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the work of their own hands.
Good News Translation
I will pay the Babylonians back for what they have done, and many nations and great kings will make slaves of them.'"
Lexham English Bible
For many nations and great kings will let them work, even them, and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.'"
Literal Translation
For many nations and great kings will lay service on them, even they. And I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their own hands.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that they also shal be subdued vnto dyuerse nacions & greate kynges, for I wil recompense them, acordinge to their dedes & workes of their owne hondes.
American Standard Version
For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
Bible in Basic English
For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their own hands.
King James Version (1611)
For many nations and great kings shall serue themselues of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the workes of their owne hands.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So that they also shalbe subdued vnto diuers nations and great kynges, for I will recompence them according to their deedes and workes of their owne handes.
English Revised Version
For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them, even of them: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for thei serueden to hem, whanne thei weren many folkis, and grete kingis; and Y schal yelde to hem aftir the werkis of hem, and aftir the dedis of her hondis.
Update Bible Version
For many nations and great kings shall make slaves of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
Webster's Bible Translation
For many nations and great kings shall reduce them to subjection also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
New English Translation
For many nations and great kings will make slaves of the king of Babylon and his nation too. I will repay them for all they have done!'"
New King James Version
(For many nations and great kings shall be served by them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)"'
New Living Translation
Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylonians, just as they enslaved my people. I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people."
New Life Bible
They themselves will be made to serve many nations and great kings. I will pay them for what they have done, and for the work of their hands.'"
New Revised Standard
For many nations and great kings shall make slaves of them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For many nations and great kings have used, even them, as slaves, So will I recompense to them - According to their deed and According to the work of their own hands.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For they have served them, whereas they were many nations, and great kings: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their hands.
Revised Standard Version
For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Young's Literal Translation
For laid service on them -- also them -- have many nations and great kings, and I have given recompence to them according to their doing, and according to the work of their hands.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'(For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)'"

Contextual Overview

8“Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: ‘Because you have not obeyed my words, 9I am going to send for all the families of the north’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘and send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror and scorn, and ruins forever. 10I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them—the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. 12When the seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, and I will make it a ruin forever. 13I will bring on that land all my words I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. 14For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.’”

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

many: Jeremiah 27:7, Jeremiah 50:9, Jeremiah 50:41, Jeremiah 51:6, Jeremiah 51:27, Jeremiah 51:28, Isaiah 14:2, Isaiah 45:1-3, Daniel 5:28, Habakkuk 2:8-16

I: Jeremiah 50:29-34, Jeremiah 51:6, Jeremiah 51:20-27, Jeremiah 51:35-41, Psalms 137:8, Isaiah 66:6, Revelation 18:20-24

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:39 - compel him to serve as 2 Chronicles 36:22 - that the word Jeremiah 25:12 - that I Jeremiah 30:8 - serve Jeremiah 34:9 - serve Jeremiah 51:7 - the nations Ezekiel 7:4 - but Ezekiel 34:27 - served Habakkuk 1:5 - ye among

Cross-References

Isaiah 21:11
A pronouncement concerning Dumah:
Isaiah 21:16
For the Lord said this to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker counts years, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also,.... Take their cities, seize upon the kingdoms, spoil them of their wealth and riches, and bring them into servitude to them: these "many nations", which should and did do all this, were the Medes and Persians, and those that were subject to them, or were their allies and auxiliaries in this expedition; and the "great kings" were Cyrus and Darius, and those that were confederate with them:

and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands; as they have done to others, it shall be done to them; as they have served themselves of other nations, other nations shall serve themselves of them; as they have cruelly used others, they shall be used with cruelty themselves; and as they have made other countries desolate, their land shall become desolate also; not only their tyranny and cruelty, but all their other sins, shall receive a just recompence of reward.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall serve themselves of them also - i. e., shall impose forced labor upon the Chaldaeans, and reduce them also to servitude.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 25:14. Many nations and great kings — The Medes and the Persians, under Cyrus; and several princes, his vassals or allies.


 
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