Jeremiah 25:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

This country will be as empty as a desert, because I will make all of you the slaves of the king of Babylonia for seventy years.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:20

The survivors were taken to Babylonia as prisoners, where they were slaves of the king and his sons, until Persia became a powerful nation.

Isaiah 5:6

It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor hoed; it will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.

Jeremiah 25:12

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 for ever.

Jeremiah 27:22

will be taken to Babylonia, where they will remain until I decide to bring them back to Jerusalem. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Jeremiah 29:10

After Babylonia has been the strongest nation for seventy years, I will be kind and bring you back to Jerusalem, just as I have promised.

Jeremiah 4:26

Farmland had become a desert, and towns were in ruins. The LORD's fierce anger had done all of this.

Jeremiah 4:27

The LORD said: I have made my decision, and I won't change my mind. This land will be destroyed, although not completely. The sky will turn dark, and the earth will mourn.

Jeremiah 43:10

Then tell them that I, the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, have sent for my servant, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I will bring him here and make him set up his throne and his royal tent over these stones that I told you to bury.

Jeremiah 44:22

And when he could no longer put up with your disgusting sins, he placed a curse on your land and turned it into a desert, as it is today.

Ezekiel 12:19

Tell the people of Israel that I, the LORD, say that some day everyone in Jerusalem will shake when they eat and tremble when they drink. Their country will be destroyed and left empty, because they have been cruel and violent.

Ezekiel 29:11

No human or animal will even dare travel through Egypt, because no sign of life will be found there for forty years.

Ezekiel 6:14

I will make their country a barren wasteland, from the Southern Desert to the town of Diblah in the north. Then they will know that I, the LORD, have done these things.

Leviticus 26:32

Your land will become so desolate that even your enemies who settle there will be shocked when they see it.

Micah 7:13

Those nations will suffer disaster because of what they did.

Zechariah 1:12

At this, the angel said, “LORD All-Powerful, for seventy years you have been angry with Jerusalem and the towns of Judah. When are you ever going to have mercy on them?”