And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Parallel translations
- WEB This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- KJV And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- NKJV And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- NASB 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.
- NLT This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
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Quick answer
The whole land will become a desolation, and these nations will serve Babylon seventy years. God sets a fixed term for the exile.
Overview
God specifies a seventy-year period of Babylonian dominion and Judah's desolation. This precise timeframe, repeated in Jeremiah 29:10, gives hope of a definite end and later guides Daniel's prayer (Dan 9:2) and the return under Cyrus. God's judgments are measured and bounded by His faithful promise of restoration.
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- Dan 9:2in 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.
- Zech 1:12Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
- Jer 25:12But 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.
- 2 Chr 36:21–22So 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 through Jeremiah.
- Zech 7:5“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?
- Jer 4:27For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
- Jer 12:11–12They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
- Isa 23:15–17At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
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