This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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- KJV And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- BSB And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 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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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 by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
- Zech 1:12Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
- Jer 25:12“It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation,” says Yahweh, “for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.
- 2 Chr 36:21–22to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
- Zech 7:5“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
- Jer 4:27For Yahweh says, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
- Jer 12:11–12They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
- Isa 23:15–17It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.
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