Parallel Verses
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 American Standard Bible
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
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.
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.
Themes
the Ammonites » Predictions respecting » Subjection to babylon
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Captivity of the jews by
Captivity » Of judah in babylon, prophecy of
Desolation » Why desolation comes
Happiness » Of the wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Happiness of the The Wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Periods and numbers » Seven, the number of perfection seventy » Years of captivity
Prophecy » Miscellaneous, fulfilled » Captivity of the jews predicted and fulfilled
Seventy » The jews in captivity in babylon for seventy years
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 25:11
Verse Info
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, whereof 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 unto 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 unto me, even to me?
2 Chronicles 36:21-22
To fulfil 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 fulfil threescore and ten 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 an 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 unto 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 threescore and ten years?