Jeremiah 25:11

God's Word

This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:20

The king of Babylon took those who weren’t executed to Babylon to be slaves for him and his sons. They remained captives until the Persian Empire began to rule.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland. It will never be pruned or hoed. Thorns and weeds will grow in it, and I will command the clouds not to rain on it.

Jeremiah 25:12

“When the 70 years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation for their crimes, declares the Lord. I will turn Babylon into a permanent wasteland.

Jeremiah 25:38

He has left his lair like a lion. Their land has been ruined because of the heat of the oppressor, because of the fury of his anger.

Jeremiah 27:22

They will be taken to Babylon and stay there until I come for them, declares the Lord. I will take them from there and bring them back to this place.”

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until Babylon is defeated. Then many nations and great kings will make him their slave.

Jeremiah 28:14

This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will put an iron yoke on the necks of all these nations so that they will serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. They will serve him! I will even make wild animals serve him.’ ”

Jeremiah 29:10

This is what the Lord says: When Babylon’s 70 years are over, I will come to you. I will keep my promise to you and bring you back to this place.

Jeremiah 4:26

I see that the fertile land has become a desert, and all its cities are torn down because of the Lord and his burning anger.

Jeremiah 4:27

This is what the Lord says: The whole earth will be ruined, although I will not destroy it completely.

Jeremiah 43:10

Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I’m going to send for my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will set his throne over these stones that I buried, and I will spread his royal canopy above them.

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear the wicked and detestable things you did. That is why your land has become something ruined, destroyed, and cursed. No one lives in that land today.

Ezekiel 12:19

“Tell the people of this land, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says about the people who live in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: They will be worried as they eat their food and terrified as they drink their water. Their country will be stripped of everything because everyone who lives there is violent.

Ezekiel 29:11

No human or animal will walk through it, and no one will live there for 40 years.

Ezekiel 6:14

I will use my power against them and destroy the land, from the desert to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’ ”

Daniel 9:2

In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, learned from the Scriptures the number of years that Jerusalem would remain in ruins. The Lord had told the prophet Jeremiah that Jerusalem would remain in ruins for 70 years.

Leviticus 26:32

I will make your land so deserted that your enemies will be shocked as they settle in it.

Micah 7:13

The earth will become a wasteland for those who live on it because of what the people living there have done.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the Messenger of the Lord said, “Lord of Armies, how much longer until you show compassion to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah? You’ve been angry with them for 70 years.”

Zechariah 7:5

“Tell all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these past 70 years, did you really do it for me?