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‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. <a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/25.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> ‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the LORD, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation. <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/25.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8216Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,&#8217 declares the LORD, &#8216for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation. <a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/25.htm">NASB 1977 </a> ‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the LORD, ‘for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation. <a href="/lsb/jeremiah/25.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> ‘Then it will be when seventy years are fulfilled, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares Yahweh, ‘for their iniquity, even the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation. <a href="/amp/jeremiah/25.htm">Amplified Bible</a> ‘Then when seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans (Babylonia),’ says the LORD, ‘for their wickedness, and will make the land [of the Chaldeans] a perpetual waste. <a href="/csb/jeremiah/25.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> When 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. <a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/25.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> When the 70 years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation—this is the LORD&#8217s declaration— &#8216the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, and I will make it a ruin forever. <a href="/asv/jeremiah/25.htm">American Standard Version</a> And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever. <a href="/cev/jeremiah/25.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> When that time is up, I will punish the king of Babylonia and his people for everything they have done wrong, and I will turn that country into a wasteland forever. <a href="/erv/jeremiah/25.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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 I will make it desolate for ever. <a href="/gwt/jeremiah/25.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "When the 70 years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation for their crimes, declares the LORD. I will turn Babylon into a permanent wasteland. <a href="/gnt/jeremiah/25.htm">Good News Translation</a> After that I will punish Babylonia and its king for their sin. I will destroy that country and leave it in ruins forever. <a href="/isv/jeremiah/25.htm">International Standard Version</a> Then when the seventy years have passed, I'll judge the king of Babylon and that nation, declares the LORD, I'll judge the land of the Chaldeans for their iniquity and I'll make it a desolation forever. <a href="/msb/jeremiah/25.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation. <a href="/net/jeremiah/25.htm">NET Bible</a> "'But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon an everlasting ruin. I, the LORD, affirm it! <a href="/nheb/jeremiah/25.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever. <a href="/wbt/jeremiah/25.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> 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. <a href="/web/jeremiah/25.htm">World English Bible</a> “It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,” says Yahweh, “for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/25.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And it has come to pass, at the fullness of seventy years, I charge against the king of Babylon, and against that nation,” a declaration of YHWH, “their iniquity, and against the land of the Chaldeans, and have appointed it for continuous desolations. <a href="/ylt/jeremiah/25.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 'And it hath come to pass, at the fulness of seventy years, I charge against the king of Babylon, and against that nation -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- their iniquity, and against the land of the Chaldeans, and have appointed it for desolations age-during. <a href="/slt/jeremiah/25.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And it was when seventy years were filled up, I will review over the king of Babel and upon this nation, says Jehovah, their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans, and I set it for eternal desolations.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/jeremiah/25.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And when the seventy years shall be expired, I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans: and I will make it perpetual desolations. <a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/25.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And when the seventy years have been completed, I will visit their iniquity upon the king of Babylon, and upon that nation, and upon the land of the Chaldeans, says the Lord. And I will set it in continual desolations. <a href="/nabre/jeremiah/25.htm">New American Bible</a> but when the seventy years have elapsed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation and the land of the Chaldeans for their guilt—oracle of the LORD. Their land I will turn into everlasting waste. <a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/25.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, says the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/25.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And it shall come to pass when seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their iniquities, says the LORD; and also the land of the Chaldeans, I will make it a perpetual desolation. <a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/25.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And whenever he has finished seventy years, I shall adjudicate against the King of Babel and against his people their crimes, says LORD JEHOVAH, and against the land of the Chaldeans, and I shall make it a horror to eternity<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/jeremiah/25.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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 I will make it perpetual desolations. <a href="/sep/jeremiah/25.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation. <a href="/parallel/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=7380" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/25.htm">The Destruction of Babylon</a> 12<a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: wə·hā·yāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">But when</a> <a href="/hebrew/7657.htm" title="7657: šiḇ·‘îm (Number-cp) -- Seventy (a card. number). Multiple of sheba'; seventy.">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> <a href="/hebrew/4390.htm" title="4390: ḵim·lō·wṯ (Prep-k:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To be full, to fill. Or malae; a primitive root, to fill or be full of, in a wide application.">are complete,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6485.htm" title="6485: ’ep̄·qōḏ (V-Qal-Imperf-1cs) -- To attend to, visit, muster, appoint. A primitive root; to visit; by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.">I will punish</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></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/5921.htm" title="5921: wə·‘al- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: ha·hū (Art:: Pro-3ms) -- He, she, it. ">and that</a> <a href="/hebrew/1471.htm" title="1471: hag·gō·w (Art:: N-ms) -- 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.">nation,</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: ’e·reṣ (N-fsc) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/3778.htm" title="3778: kaś·dîm (N-proper-mp) -- A region of S. Bab. and its inhab. (occasionally with enclitic) Kasdiymah; towards the Kasdites.">of the Chaldeans,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5771.htm" title="5771: ‘ă·wō·nām (N-csc:: 3mp) -- Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity. Or oavown; from avah; perversity, i.e. evil.">for their guilt,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: wə·‘al- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5002.htm" title="5002: nə·’um- (N-msc) -- Utterance. From na'am; an oracle.">declares</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD,</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/7760.htm" title="7760: wə·śam·tî (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">and I will make</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·ṯōw (DirObjM:: 3ms) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">it</a> <a href="/hebrew/5769.htm" title="5769: ‘ō·w·lām (N-ms) -- Long duration, antiquity, futurity. ">an everlasting</a> <a href="/hebrew/8077.htm" title="8077: lə·šim·mō·wṯ (Prep-l:: N-fpc) -- Devastation, waste. Or shimamah; feminine of shamem; devastation; figuratively, astonishment.">desolation.</a> 13I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/daniel/5-26.htm">Daniel 5:26-28</a> And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end. / TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient. / PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.” <a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19</a> And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. <a href="/revelation/18-2.htm">Revelation 18:2</a> 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. <a href="/isaiah/14-22.htm">Isaiah 14:22-23</a> “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. <a href="/habakkuk/2-8.htm">Habakkuk 2:8</a> Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers. <a href="/revelation/17-16.htm">Revelation 17:16-17</a> And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. / For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by uniting to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. <a href="/isaiah/47-1.htm">Isaiah 47:1-3</a> “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. / Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. / Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.” <a href="/revelation/18-10.htm">Revelation 18:10</a> In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.” <a href="/jeremiah/50-1.htm">Jeremiah 50:1-3</a> This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans: / “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’ / For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.” <a href="/revelation/14-8.htm">Revelation 14:8</a> Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.” <a href="/isaiah/21-9.htm">Isaiah 21:9</a> Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!” <a href="/jeremiah/51-11.htm">Jeremiah 51:11</a> Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple. <a href="/revelation/16-19.htm">Revelation 16:19</a> The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath. <a href="/isaiah/45-1.htm">Isaiah 45:1-2</a> This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut: / “I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron. <a href="/jeremiah/50-9.htm">Jeremiah 50:9-10</a> For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed. / Chaldea will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill,” declares the LORD.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, said the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.when.<a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm">Jeremiah 29:10</a> For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.<a href="/2_kings/24-1.htm">2 Kings 24:1</a> In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.<a href="/ezra/1-1.htm">Ezra 1:1,2</a> Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, … that I.<a href="/jeremiah/25-14.htm">Jeremiah 25:14</a> 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.<a href="/jeremiah/50-1.htm">Jeremiah 50:1</a> The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.<a href="/jeremiah/51-1.htm">Jeremiah 51:1</a> Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;punish.<a href="/jeremiah/23-2.htm">Jeremiah 23:2</a> Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.perpetual.<a href="/jeremiah/50-3.htm">Jeremiah 50:3,13,23,39,40,45</a> For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast… <a href="/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25,26,62-64</a> Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain… <a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19</a> And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/23-20.htm">Accomplished</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-40.htm">Age-During</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-7.htm">Appointed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Babylon</a> <a href="/jeremiah/24-5.htm">Chaldaeans</a> <a href="/jeremiah/24-5.htm">Chaldeans</a> <a href="/jeremiah/24-5.htm">Chalde'ans</a> <a href="/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Charge</a> <a href="/isaiah/60-20.htm">Completed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-7.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Desolation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-9.htm">Desolations</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-11.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-40.htm">Everlasting</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-11.htm">Evil-Doing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-5.htm">Forever</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-10.htm">Fulness</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-23.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-31.htm">Making</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-9.htm">Nation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-9.htm">Perpetual</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-34.htm">Punish</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Seventy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Waste</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/25-34.htm">Accomplished</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-40.htm">Age-During</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-26.htm">Appointed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-26.htm">Babylon</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-4.htm">Chaldaeans</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-4.htm">Chaldeans</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-4.htm">Chalde'ans</a> <a href="/jeremiah/27-4.htm">Charge</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm">Completed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-29.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-38.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-18.htm">Desolation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-26.htm">Desolations</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm">Ended</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-3.htm">Everlasting</a> <a href="/jeremiah/30-15.htm">Evil-Doing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-36.htm">Forever</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm">Fulness</a> <a href="/jeremiah/30-14.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/jeremiah/28-15.htm">Making</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-32.htm">Nation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-13.htm">Perpetual</a> <a href="/jeremiah/27-8.htm">Punish</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm">Seventy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-18.htm">Waste</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 25</div>1. <a href="/jeremiah/25-1.htm">Jeremiah, reproving the Jews' disobedience to the prophets,</a> 8. <a href="/jeremiah/25-8.htm">foretells the seventy years' captivity;</a> 12. <a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">and after that, the destruction of Babylon.</a> 15. <a href="/jeremiah/25-15.htm">Under the type of a cup of wine he foreshows the destruction of all nations.</a> 34. <a href="/jeremiah/25-34.htm">The howling of the shepherds.</a> </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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This timeframe is significant as it represents a complete cycle of judgment and restoration. The number seventy often symbolizes completeness in biblical numerology. This prophecy was fulfilled historically when the Jews returned to Jerusalem under the decree of Cyrus the Great, as recorded in <a href="/ezra/1.htm">Ezra 1:1-4</a>. The seventy years also align with the sabbatical years that the land of Israel was to enjoy rest, as mentioned in <a href="/leviticus/26-34.htm">Leviticus 26:34-35</a>.I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation The punishment of Babylon and its king, likely referring to Nebuchadnezzar and his successors, is a divine retribution for their role in the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, as well as their oppression of God's people. This prophecy was fulfilled when the Medes and Persians, led by Cyrus, conquered Babylon in 539 BC. This event is also recorded in <a href="/daniel/5.htm">Daniel 5</a>, where the fall of Babylon is depicted during the reign of Belshazzar.the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt The Chaldeans were a Semitic people who became the ruling class in Babylon. Their guilt refers to their idolatry, pride, and cruelty, as well as their desecration of the temple and the holy vessels of God. The judgment against them is consistent with God's justice, as seen in other prophetic books like <a href="/isaiah/13.htm">Isaiah 13</a> and <a href="/habakkuk/2.htm">Habakkuk 2</a>, which also pronounce woes upon Babylon for its sins.declares the LORD This phrase emphasizes the authority and certainty of the prophecy. It is a reminder that the words spoken are not merely Jeremiah's but are the direct revelation from God. This divine declaration assures the fulfillment of the prophecy, as God's word does not return void (<a href="/isaiah/55-11.htm">Isaiah 55:11</a>).and I will make it an everlasting desolation The term "everlasting desolation" signifies a complete and enduring judgment. Historically, Babylon did become a desolate ruin, as prophesied. Although the city was once a center of power and culture, it eventually fell into decline and was abandoned. This desolation serves as a type of the final judgment and the ultimate triumph of God's kingdom over the kingdoms of this world, as seen in <a href="/revelation/18.htm">Revelation 18</a>, where Babylon is used symbolically to represent the fall of worldly powers opposed to God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a> A prophet called by God to deliver messages of judgment and hope to the people of Judah and surrounding nations. 2. <a href="/topical/k/king_of_babylon.htm">King of Babylon</a> Refers to the ruler of Babylon, a powerful empire that conquered Judah and took its people into exile. 3. <a href="/topical/b/babylon.htm">Babylon</a> An ancient city and empire known for its wealth and power, which played a significant role in the history of Israel and Judah. 4. <a href="/topical/c/chaldeans.htm">Chaldeans</a> A people group within Babylon, often synonymous with the Babylonians, known for their influence and military prowess. 5. <a href="/topical/s/seventy_years.htm">Seventy Years</a> A prophetic period during which Judah would be in exile in Babylon, symbolizing a complete and divinely appointed time of judgment.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a> God's control over nations and history is evident as He uses Babylon to discipline Judah and then holds Babylon accountable for its own sins. <a href="/topical/t/the_certainty_of_god's_promises.htm">The Certainty of God's Promises</a> The seventy-year prophecy underscores that God's word is reliable and will come to pass, encouraging believers to trust in His promises. <a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_sin.htm">The Consequences of Sin</a> Babylon's eventual desolation serves as a warning that sin and pride lead to downfall, urging individuals and nations to seek righteousness. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_restoration.htm">Hope in Restoration</a> While judgment is pronounced, the completion of seventy years also points to God's plan for restoration and hope for His people. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_prophecy.htm">The Role of Prophecy</a> Understanding biblical prophecy helps believers discern God's plans and purposes, encouraging a life aligned with His will.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_25.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 25</a> <a href="/q/why_is_babylon_inhabited_post-destruction.htm">Jeremiah 25:12 foretells Babylon becoming a perpetual desolation, yet archaeological evidence shows later habitation; how do we explain this? </a> <a href="/q/why_does_jeremiah_27_stress_obeying_babylon.htm">Why does the text in Jeremiah 27 emphasize obedience to Babylon’s rule if rabbinic and later Christian teachings stress allegiance to God above earthly powers?</a> <a href="/q/how_reconcile_romans_13_1_with_oppressive_regimes.htm">Romans 13:1 says all governing authorities are instituted by God—how do we reconcile this with regimes responsible for genocide or oppression? </a> <a href="/q/why_does_isaiah_23_13_credit_chaldeans.htm">Why does Isaiah 23:13 attribute Tyre’s destruction to the Chaldeans when other historical sources credit different powers for Tyre’s conquests? </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>(12) I will punish the king of Babylon . . .--The words are omitted in the LXX. version of the chapter, which differs materially from the Hebrew text, and there are some internal grounds for suspecting it to be a later addition, possibly from the hand of the prophet himself, or, more probably, from that of Baruch as collecting and editing his writings, or of some later transcriber. In <a href="/jeremiah/25-26.htm" title="And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.">Jeremiah 25:26</a>, as commonly interpreted, there is a prediction of the destruction of the king of Babylon veiled in enigmatic language. That we can understand well enough, if it was meant only for the initiated, but it is not easy to see why the same prophetic discourse should contain both the veiled and the open prediction. On the relation of the LXX. version to the Hebrew, see Introduction.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/25.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verses 12-29. - The judgment upon Judah and the nations. Verse 12. - Perpetual desolations. Thus, too, we read in <a href="/isaiah/13-20.htm">Isaiah 13:20</a>, that Babylon "shall never be inhabited." There is a dispute between Dr. Keith and Dr. Kay on the one side, and rationalistic commentators (e.g. Kuenen) on the other, whether these prophecies have received a circumstantial fulfillment. The truth is that authorities are not entirely agreed on the area covered by the site of Babylon. General Chesney remarks that, so far from being uninhabited, "A town of considerable population, villages, date groves, and gardens, are found still on the very site of ancient Babylon" (extracts from a private letter in B. W. Newton's 'Babylon: its Revival and Final Desolation,' pp. 38-42). Similarly M. Menant, a veteran French Assyriologist, remarks that "Hillah, according to M. Oppert, was a quarter of Babylon, probably that which was inhabited by the working population, without the precincts of the royal palaces. Numberless traces of ancient habitations indicate this origin of the modern town" ('Babylone,' p. 177). Mr. George Smith, however, in his 'Assyrian Discoveries,' simply states that, "A little to the south rose the town of Hillah," apparently assuming (what is impossible to prove, as the walls of Babylon have not yet been discovered) that Hillah lay just outside the city enclosure. But even he adds that it was "built with the bricks found in the old capital," which is, strictly speaking, inconsistent with the absolute abandonment of the site of Babylon implied in <a href="/isaiah/13-20.htm">Isaiah 13:20-22</a>. The dispute is an unfortunate one, as it tacitly implies that circumstantial fulfillments are necessary to the veracity of prophecy. The truth seems to lie in the mean between two opposing views. As a rule, the details of a prophetic description cannot be pressed; they are mainly imaginative elaborations of a great central truth or fact. Occasionally, however, regarding the prophecies in the light of gospel times, it is almost impossible not to observe that "the Spirit of Christ which was in" the prophets (<a href="/1_peter/1-11.htm">1 Peter 1:11</a>) has overruled their expressions, so that they correspond more closely to facts than could have been reasonably anticipated. Such superabundant favors to believers in inspiration occur repeatedly in the prophecies respecting Christ. They may, of course, occur elsewhere for a sufficient reason, but we have no right to be surprised if we do not meet with them. The general truth of the prophecy is that the empire of Babylon shall fall forever. As Dr. Payne Smith remarks, it was practically the work of one man (Nebuchadnezzar), and after his death it only lasted for a few years, during which its history is a series of murders and usurpations. <a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>But when וְהָיָ֣ה (wə·hā·yāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be seventy שִׁבְעִ֣ים (šiḇ·‘îm) Number - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7657.htm">Strong's 7657: </a> Seventy (a cardinal number) years שָׁנָ֡ה (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> A year are complete, כִמְלֹ֣אות (ḵim·lō·wṯ) Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4390.htm">Strong's 4390: </a> To fill, be full of I will punish אֶפְקֹ֣ד (’ep̄·qōḏ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6485.htm">Strong's 6485: </a> To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit the king מֶֽלֶךְ־ (me·leḵ-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4428.htm">Strong's 4428: </a> A king of Babylon בָּבֶל֩ (bā·ḇel) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_894.htm">Strong's 894: </a> Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city and that הַה֧וּא (ha·hū) Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> He, self, the same, this, that, as, are nation, הַגּ֨וֹי (hag·gō·w) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1471.htm">Strong's 1471: </a> A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts the land אֶ֣רֶץ (’e·reṣ) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land of the Chaldeans, כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים (kaś·dîm) Noun - proper - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3778.htm">Strong's 3778: </a> Chaldeans -- a region of southern Babylon and its inhab for their guilt, עֲוֺנָ֖ם (‘ă·wō·nām) Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5771.htm">Strong's 5771: </a> Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity declares נְאֻם־ (nə·’um-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5002.htm">Strong's 5002: </a> An oracle the LORD, יְהוָ֛ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel and I will make וְשַׂמְתִּ֥י (wə·śam·tî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> Put -- to put, place, set it אֹת֖וֹ (’ō·ṯōw) Direct object marker | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_853.htm">Strong's 853: </a> Untranslatable mark of the accusative case an everlasting עוֹלָֽם׃ (‘ō·w·lām) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5769.htm">Strong's 5769: </a> Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always desolation. לְשִֽׁמְמ֥וֹת (lə·šim·mō·wṯ) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8077.htm">Strong's 8077: </a> Devastation, astonishment <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 25:12 It shall happen when seventy years (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 25:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 25:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/25-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 25:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 25:13" /></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>