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Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/jeremiah/25.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/25.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/25.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And this whole land shall be a desolation, <i>and</i> an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/25.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And this whole land shall be a desolation <i>and</i> an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/25.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/25.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8216This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/25.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘And this whole land shall be a desolation and a horror, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jeremiah/25.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />This whole land will be a waste place and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jeremiah/25.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />This whole land will be a waste and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jeremiah/25.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/25.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/25.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jeremiah/25.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />This country will be as empty as a desert, because I will make all of you the slaves of the king of Babylonia for 70 years. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/25.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jeremiah/25.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jeremiah/25.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jeremiah/25.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />This entire land will be a desolation and a waste, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jeremiah/25.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jeremiah/25.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.' <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jeremiah/25.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/25.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/25.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/25.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And all this land has been for a desolation, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/25.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And all this land hath been for a waste, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jeremiah/25.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />All this land was for a waste, for a desolation, and these nations served the king of Babel seventy years.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/25.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment: and all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/25.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And this entire land will be in desolation and in stupor. And all these nations will serve the king of Babylon, for seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/25.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />This whole land shall be a ruin and a waste. Seventy years these nations shall serve the king of Babylon;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/25.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/25.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/25.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And all this land shall be for a wilderness and for an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the King of Babel seventy years<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/jeremiah/25.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And this whole land shall be a desolation, and a waste; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/jeremiah/25.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=7370" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/25.htm">The Seventy-Year Captivity</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">10</span>Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. <span class="reftext">11</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/2063.htm" title="2063: haz·zōṯ (Art:: Pro-fs) -- Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that. Irregular feminine of zeh; this.">And this</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">whole</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: hā·’ā·reṣ (Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">land</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: wə·hā·yə·ṯāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3fs) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">will become</a> <a href="/hebrew/2723.htm" title="2723: lə·ḥā·rə·bāh (Prep-l:: N-fs) -- Waste, desolation, ruin. Feminine of choreb; properly, drought, i.e. a desolation.">a desolate</a> <a href="/hebrew/8047.htm" title="8047: lə·šam·māh (Prep-l:: N-fs) -- Waste, horror. From shamem; ruin; by implication, consternation.">wasteland,</a> <a href="/hebrew/428.htm" title="428: hā·’êl·leh (Art:: Pro-cp) -- These. Prolonged from 'el; these or those.">and these</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1471.htm" title="1471: hag·gō·w·yim (Art:: N-mp) -- Rarely goy; apparently from the same root as gevah; a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts.">nations</a> <a href="/hebrew/5647.htm" title="5647: wə·‘ā·ḇə·ḏū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3cp) -- To work, serve. A primitive root; to work; by implication, to serve, till, enslave, etc.">will serve</a> <a href="/hebrew/4428.htm" title="4428: me·leḵ (N-msc) -- King. From malak; a king.">the king</a> <a href="/hebrew/894.htm" title="894: bā·ḇel (N-proper-fs) -- From balal; confusion; Babel, including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire.">of Babylon</a> <a href="/hebrew/7657.htm" title="7657: šiḇ·‘îm (Number-cp) -- Seventy (a card. number). Multiple of sheba'; seventy.">for seventy</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: šā·nāh (N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">years.</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/daniel/9-2.htm">Daniel 9:2</a></span><br />in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-20.htm">2 Chronicles 36:20-21</a></span><br />Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power. / So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/26-33.htm">Leviticus 26:33-35</a></span><br />But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste. / Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. / As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/25-8.htm">2 Kings 25:8-12</a></span><br />On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. / He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. / And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezra/1-1.htm">Ezra 1:1-3</a></span><br />In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: / “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. / Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19-22</a></span><br />And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. / She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there. / But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm">Jeremiah 29:10</a></span><br />For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/27-6.htm">Jeremiah 27:6-7</a></span><br />So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him. / All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Jeremiah 50:12-13</a></span><br />your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. / Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/51-26.htm">Jeremiah 51:26</a></span><br />No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-2.htm">Revelation 18:2</a></span><br />And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/14-22.htm">Isaiah 14:22-23</a></span><br />“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD. / “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/habakkuk/1-5.htm">Habakkuk 1:5-6</a></span><br />“Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you. / For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/7-5.htm">Zechariah 7:5</a></span><br />“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/1-11.htm">Matthew 1:11-12</a></span><br />and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon. / After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.</p><p class="hdg">seventy.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12</a></b></br> And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, <i>that</i> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/36-21.htm">2 Chronicles 36:21,22</a></b></br> To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: <i>for</i> as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/23-15.htm">Isaiah 23:15-17</a></b></br> 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… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/25-9.htm">Astonishment</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-9.htm">Babylon</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-10.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-8.htm">Country</a> <a href="/jeremiah/19-8.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-5.htm">Desolation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/24-9.htm">Horror</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-9.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-5.htm">Ruin</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-6.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-6.htm">Serve</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-9.htm">Served</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm">Seventy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-10.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-11.htm">Wasteland</a> <a href="/jeremiah/24-7.htm">Whole</a> <a href="/jeremiah/19-8.htm">Wonder</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/25-18.htm">Astonishment</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Babylon</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-15.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-6.htm">Country</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Desolation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-18.htm">Horror</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-13.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-18.htm">Ruin</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-14.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-14.htm">Serve</a> <a href="/jeremiah/27-7.htm">Served</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Seventy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/ezekiel/29-9.htm">Wasteland</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-40.htm">Whole</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-18.htm">Wonder</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 25</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/25-1.htm">Jeremiah, reproving the Jews' disobedience to the prophets,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/25-8.htm">foretells the seventy years' captivity;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">and after that, the destruction of Babylon.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/25-15.htm">Under the type of a cup of wine he foreshows the destruction of all nations.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">34. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/25-34.htm">The howling of the shepherds.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The term "desolate wasteland" indicates complete destruction and abandonment, a common consequence of ancient warfare. This prophecy was fulfilled when Nebuchadnezzar's forces destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BC. The desolation serves as a divine judgment for the people's persistent idolatry and disobedience, as outlined in earlier chapters of Jeremiah. The imagery of desolation is also used in other prophetic books, such as Isaiah and Ezekiel, to describe the consequences of turning away from God.<p><b>and these nations will serve the king of Babylon</b><br>The "nations" mentioned include not only Judah but also surrounding nations that were subjugated by Babylon. This reflects the historical reality of Babylon's dominance in the region during the 6th century BC. The phrase "serve the king of Babylon" indicates political subjugation and economic exploitation, as these nations were forced to pay tribute and provide resources to Babylon. This period of servitude is a direct result of God's judgment, as He used Babylon as an instrument to discipline His people and the surrounding nations.<p><b>for seventy years</b><br>The seventy-year period is significant both historically and theologically. Historically, it corresponds to the time from the first deportation of Jews to Babylon in 605 BC until the decree of Cyrus allowing their return in 538 BC. Theologically, the number seventy symbolizes completeness and fulfillment of divine judgment. This period allowed the land to rest, as prescribed in <a href="/leviticus/26-34.htm">Leviticus 26:34-35</a>, and served as a time for the people to reflect and repent. The seventy years also prefigure the ultimate restoration and return, pointing to God's faithfulness in fulfilling His promises, as seen in the later books of Ezra and Nehemiah.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a></b><br>A prophet called by God to deliver messages of warning and hope to the people of Judah. His ministry spanned over 40 years during a tumultuous period in Judah's history.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a></b><br>The southern kingdom of Israel, which was warned by Jeremiah of impending judgment due to their disobedience and idolatry.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/b/babylon.htm">Babylon</a></b><br>The empire that would conquer Judah and take its people into exile. Babylon is often seen as a symbol of worldly power and opposition to God.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/s/seventy_years.htm">Seventy Years</a></b><br>The prophesied duration of Judah's exile in Babylon, symbolizing a complete period of judgment and purification.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/d/desolate_wasteland.htm">Desolate Wasteland</a></b><br>The condition of the land of Judah as a result of God's judgment, emphasizing the seriousness of their sin and the consequences of turning away from God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_disobedience.htm">The Consequences of Disobedience</a></b><br>God's warnings through His prophets are serious and should not be ignored. Persistent disobedience leads to judgment.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_over_nations.htm">God's Sovereignty Over Nations</a></b><br>God uses nations like Babylon to accomplish His purposes. He is in control of history and uses it to fulfill His plans.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_promises.htm">Hope in God's Promises</a></b><br>Even in judgment, God provides a timeline for restoration. The seventy years signify that God’s discipline is purposeful and has an end.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_repentance.htm">The Importance of Repentance</a></b><br>The exile serves as a call to repentance. It is a reminder that turning back to God is always the right response to His discipline.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_timing.htm">Trust in God's Timing</a></b><br>God's timing is perfect. The seventy years teach us patience and trust in God's plan, even when it seems long or difficult.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_25.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 25</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/are_there_non-biblical_records_of_hananiah's_death.htm">In Jeremiah 28:15–17, are there any historical records outside Scripture confirming Hananiah’s death within the same year, as Jeremiah foretells? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_jer._25_11's_70_years.htm">How can Jeremiah 25:11’s strict 70-year timeline for Babylonian captivity be reconciled with historical records showing different dates and durations? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_do_the_70_sevens_in_daniel_9_mean.htm">What do the seventy sevens in Daniel 9 mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_doesn't_jeremiah's_70_years_align.htm">Why does Jeremiah’s 70-year prophecy about the Babylonian exile not match historical timelines?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/25.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(11) <span class= "bld">Shall serve the king of Babylon seventy-years.</span>--This is the first mention of the duration of the captivity. The seventy years are commonly reckoned from B.C. 606, the date of the deportation of Jehoiakim and his princes, to B.C. 536, when the decree for the return of the exiles was issued by Cyrus. In <a href="/2_chronicles/36-21.htm" title="To fulfill 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 fulfill three score and ten years.">2Chronicles 36:21</a> the number is connected with the land "enjoying her Sabbaths," as though the long desolation came as a retribution for the people's neglect of the law of the Sabbatical year, and, perhaps, also for their non-observance of the weekly Sabbaths. (<a href="/isaiah/56-4.htm" title="For thus said the LORD to the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;">Isaiah 56:4</a>; <a href="/context/jeremiah/17-21.htm" title="Thus said the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;">Jeremiah 17:21-22</a>.) For the apportionment of the reigns of the Babylonian kings that made up the seventy years, see the <span class= "ital">Chronological Table </span>in the <span class= "ital">Introduction. </span>Symbolically the number, as the multiple of seven and ten, represents the highest measure of completeness (comp. <a href="/matthew/18-22.htm" title="Jesus said to him, I say not to you, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.">Matthew 18:22</a>).<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/25.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 11.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years</span>. Widely different opinions are held as to the meaning of this prophecy. The most probable view is that "seventy" is an indefinite or round number (as in <a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm">Isaiah 23:17</a>), equivalent to "a very long time." This is supported by the analogy of <a href="/jeremiah/27-7.htm">Jeremiah 27:7</a>, where the captivity is announced as lasting through the reigns of Nebuchadnezzar, his son, and his grandson - a statement evidently vague and indefinite (see <span class="accented">ad</span> loc.), and in any case not answering to a period of seventy years. Besides, we find the "seventy years" again in <a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm">Jeremiah 29:10</a>, a passage written probably eleven years later. Others think the number is to be taken literally, and it is certainly true that from <span class="date">B.C. 606</span>, the fourth year of Jehoiakim, to the fall of Babylon, <span class="date">B.C. 539</span>, sixty-seven years elapsed. But is it desirable to press this against the internal evidence that Jeremiah himself took the number indefinitely? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">And this</span><br /><span class="heb">הַזֹּ֔את</span> <span class="translit">(haz·zōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Pronoun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2063.htm">Strong's 2063: </a> </span><span class="str2">Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that, </span><br /><br /><span class="word">whole</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּל־</span> <span class="translit">(kāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">land</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאָ֣רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ā·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will become</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהָֽיְתָה֙</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hā·yə·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a desolate</span><br /><span class="heb">לְחָרְבָּ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(lə·ḥā·rə·bāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2723.htm">Strong's 2723: </a> </span><span class="str2">Waste, desolation, ruin</span><br /><br /><span class="word">wasteland,</span><br /><span class="heb">לְשַׁמָּ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(lə·šam·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8047.htm">Strong's 8047: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ruin, consternation</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and these</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאֵ֛לֶּה</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’êl·leh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Pronoun - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_428.htm">Strong's 428: </a> </span><span class="str2">These, those</span><br /><br /><span class="word">nations</span><br /><span class="heb">הַגּוֹיִ֥ם</span> <span class="translit">(hag·gō·w·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1471.htm">Strong's 1471: </a> </span><span class="str2">A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will serve</span><br /><span class="heb">וְעָ֨בְד֜וּ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·‘ā·ḇə·ḏū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5647.htm">Strong's 5647: </a> </span><span class="str2">To work, to serve, till, enslave</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the king</span><br /><span class="heb">מֶ֥לֶךְ</span> <span class="translit">(me·leḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4428.htm">Strong's 4428: </a> </span><span class="str2">A king</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Babylon</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּבֶ֖ל</span> <span class="translit">(bā·ḇel)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_894.htm">Strong's 894: </a> </span><span class="str2">Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for seventy</span><br /><span class="heb">שִׁבְעִ֥ים</span> <span class="translit">(šiḇ·‘îm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7657.htm">Strong's 7657: </a> </span><span class="str2">Seventy (a cardinal number)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">years.</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁנָֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(šā·nāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> </span><span class="str2">A year</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 25:11 This whole land shall be a desolation (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/25-10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 25:10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 25:10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 25:12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 25:12" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>