Jeremiah 25:11

Easy-to-Read Version

That whole area will be an empty desert. All these people will be slaves of the king of Babylon for 70 years.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Hebrew Names Version
This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Bavel 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.

English Standard Version
This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

New American Standard Bible
'This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

New Century Version
That whole area will be an empty desert, and these nations will be slaves of the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Amplified Bible
'This whole land will be a waste and a horror, and these nations will 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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And this whole land shalbe desolate, and an astonishment, and these nations shall serue the King of Babel seuentie yeeres.

Legacy Standard Bible
This whole land will be a waste place and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Berean Standard Bible
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Contemporary English Version
This country will be as empty as a desert, because I will make all of you the slaves of the king of Babylonia for seventy years.

Complete Jewish Bible
This entire land will become a ruin, a waste; and these nations will serve the king of Bavel 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.

George Lamsa Translation
And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Good News Translation
This whole land will be left in ruins and will be a shocking sight, and the neighboring nations will serve the king of Babylonia for seventy years.

Lexham English Bible
And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Literal Translation
And this whole land shall be a waste and a horror; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& this whole londe shal become a wildernes, & they shall serue the sayde people and the kinge of Babilon, thre score yeares and ten.

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.

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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and a waste; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

King James Version (1611)
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment, and these nations shal serue the king of Babylon seuentie yeeres.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And this whole lande shall become a wildernesse and astonished: and these nations shal serue the king of Babylon threscore yeres and ten.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.

English Revised Version
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And al the lond therof schal be in to wildirnesse, and in to wondring; and alle these folkis schulen serue the king of Babiloyne seuenti yeer.

Update Bible Version
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Webster's Bible Translation
And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

New English Translation
This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.'

New 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.

New Living Translation
This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

New Life Bible
This whole land will be a waste and a cause of fear. And these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

New Revised Standard
This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment: and all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Revised Standard Version
This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Young's 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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Contextual Overview

⁸ So this is what the Lord All-Powerful says, "You have not listened to my messages. ⁹ I will soon send for all the tribes of the north." This message is from the Lord . "I will soon send for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He is my servant. I will bring those people against the land of Judah and against the people of Judah. I will bring them against all the nations around you too. I will destroy all those countries. I will make those lands like an empty desert forever. People will see those countries, and whistle at how badly they were destroyed. ¹⁰ I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and happiness in those places. There will be no more happy sounds of the brides and bridegrooms. I will take away the sound of people grinding meal. I will take away the light of the lamp. ¹¹ That whole area will be an empty desert. All these people will be slaves of the king of Babylon for 70 years. ¹² "But when the 70 years have passed, I will punish the king of Babylon. I will punish the nation of Babylon." This message is from the Lord . "I will punish the land of the Babylonians for their sins. I will make that land a desert forever. ¹³ I said many bad things will happen to Babylon, and all of them will happen. Jeremiah spoke about those foreign nations. And all the warnings are written in this book. ¹⁴ 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."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

seventy: This prophecy was delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and began to be accomplished immediately; and it was exactly seventy years from this time to the proclamation of Cyrus for the return of the Jews. Jeremiah 25:12, 2 Chronicles 36:21, 2 Chronicles 36:22, Isaiah 23:15-17, Daniel 9:2, Zechariah 1:12, Zechariah 7:5

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:32 - And I Isaiah 5:6 - I will lay Isaiah 28:22 - a consumption Isaiah 32:10 - Many days and years Isaiah 49:24 - lawful captive Jeremiah 9:11 - desolate Jeremiah 25:18 - to make Jeremiah 27:7 - all Jeremiah 27:22 - until Jeremiah 44:2 - a desolation Jeremiah 44:22 - your land Jeremiah 51:20 - break Ezekiel 15:8 - I will Ezekiel 29:11 - forty Ezekiel 33:28 - I will lay Daniel 5:26 - God Micah 7:13 - General Habakkuk 3:2 - in the

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will build a great nation from you. I will bless you and make your name famous. People will use your name to bless other people.

Genesis 16:14
So the well there was called Beer Lahai Roi. It is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, I said that your wife Sarah will have a son. You will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him that will continue forever with all his descendants.

Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you and give you as many descendants as the stars in the sky. There will be as many people as sand on the seashore. And your people will live in cities that they will take from their enemies.

Genesis 24:62
Isaac had left Beer Lahai Roi and was now living in the Negev.

Genesis 50:24
When Joseph was near death, he said to his brothers, "My time to die is almost here. But I know that God will take care of you and lead you out of this country. God will lead you to the land he promised to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this whole land shall be a desolation,.... Not only the city of Jerusalem, but all Judea, without inhabitants, or very few, and shall be uncultivated, and become barren and unfruitful:

[and] an astonishment; to all other nations, and to all persons that pass through, beholding the desolations of it:

and other nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years; both the Jews, and other nations of Egypt, reckoning from the date of this prophecy, the fourth year of Jehoiakim's reign, when Daniel and others were carried captive, Daniel 1:1; to the first year of Cyrus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seventy years - The duration of the Babylonian empire was really a little short of this period. But the 70 years are usually calculated down to the time when the Jews were permitted to return to their country (compare Jeremiah 29:10).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 25:11. Shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. — As this prophecy was delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and in the first of Nebuchadnezzar, and began to be accomplished in the same year, (for then Nebuchadnezzar invaded Judea, and took Jerusalem,) seventy years from this time will reach down to the first year of Cyrus, when he made his proclamation for the restoration of the Jews, and the rebuilding of Jerusalem. See the note on Isaiah 13:19, where the subject is farther considered in relation to the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, and the city of Babylon.