Jeremiah 25:11

11 This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:11 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
11 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 (ESV)
11 This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
New Living Translation (NLT)
11 This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
The Message Bible (MSG)
11 The whole landscape will be one vast wasteland. These countries will be in subjection to the king of Babylon for seventy years.
American Standard Version (ASV)
11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
11 This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
11 This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
11 This whole country will become dry and empty. And those nations will serve the king of Babylonia for 70 years.

Jeremiah 25:11 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 25:11

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 1:1-6 ) ; to the first year of Cyrus.

Jeremiah 25:11 In-Context

9 I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the LORD, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.
10 I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.
11 This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt,” declares the LORD, “and will make it desolate forever.
13 I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations.

Cross References 3

  • 1. S Leviticus 26:31,32; Jeremiah 4:26-27; Jeremiah 12:11-12
  • 2. Jeremiah 28:14
  • 3. S 2 Chronicles 36:21
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