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Seventy Years of Captivity

Jeremiah 25:11

In 11 translations

BSB
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 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.
WEB
This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
ASV
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
LSV
And all this land has been for a desolation, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years.
YLT
And all this land hath been for a waste, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years.
DBY
And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
DRC
And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment: and all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
GNV
And this whole land shalbe desolate, and an astonishment, and these nations shall serue the King of Babel seuentie yeeres.
JPS
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and a waste; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
LXXE
And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְהָֽיְתָה֙ כָּל־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֔את לְחָרְבָּ֖ה לְשַׁמָּ֑ה וְעָ֨בְד֜וּ הַגּוֹיִ֥ם הָאֵ֛לֶּה אֶת־מֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶ֖ל שִׁבְעִ֥ים שָׁנָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἔσται πᾶσα ἡ γῆ εἰς ἀφανισμὸν, καὶ δουλεύσουσιν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη.

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  • Daniel 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.
  • Zechariah 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?”
  • Jeremiah 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 Chronicles 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. In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill…
  • Zechariah 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?
  • Jeremiah 4:27For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
  • Jeremiah 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. Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD…
  • Isaiah 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: “Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O…

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