Jeremiah 25:11
So shall all this land become a desolation, an astonishment, And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon, seventy years.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfil the word of God, by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had paid off her sabbaths,—all the days of her lying desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.
Isaiah 23:17So shall it be, at the end of seventy years, That Yahweh will visit Tyre, And she will return to her hire,—Yea she will play the harlot—with all the kingdoms of the earth, upon the face of the ground.
Jeremiah 4:27For, thus, saith Yahweh, A desolation, shall all the land become—Nevertheless a full end, will I not make.
Jeremiah 25:12And it shall some to pass—When the seventy years are fulfilled, I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, Declareth Yahweh their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans,—and I will turn it into age-abiding desolations.
Jeremiah 27:7Therefore shall all the nations serve him, and his son, and his son’s son,—until the time even of his own land, itself arrive, when many nations and great kings, shall use him as a slave.
Ezekiel 6:14Thus will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land a greater waste and devastation than the desert toward Diblah throughout all their dwelling-places,- And they shall know that, I, am Yahweh.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 25:9-15
Desolation Predicted. ( b. c. 607.) 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words, 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord , and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of… Read the whole commentary →