Jeremiah 25:11

Modern English Version

This whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:20

Then he carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who survived the sword, and they were slaves to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia ruled,

Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste: It shall not be pruned or dug, but briers and thorns shall come up. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.

Jeremiah 25:12

It shall come to pass when seventy years are finished that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 25:38

He has left His lair as the lion; for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor and because of His fierce anger.

Jeremiah 27:22

They will be carried to Babylon and they will be there until the day that I visit them, says the Lord. Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son until the time of his own land comes; and then many nations and great kings will make him their servant.

Jeremiah 28:14

For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him. And I have given him the beasts of the field also.

Jeremiah 29:10

For thus says the Lord: When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

Jeremiah 4:26

I looked, and behold, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by His fierce anger.

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be desolate. Yet I will not make a full end.

Jeremiah 43:10

and say to them, Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

Jeremiah 44:22

So the Lord could no longer bear it because of the evil of your deeds and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land is a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.

Ezekiel 12:19

And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with carefulness and drink their water with astonishment, because their land shall be desolate from all that is in it, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.

Ezekiel 29:11

No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast pass through it, nor shall it be inhabited for forty years.

Ezekiel 6:14

So, in all their habitations I will stretch out My hand upon them and make the land desolate, indeed, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah. And they shall know that I am the Lord.

Daniel 9:2

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which were specified by the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet for the accomplishment of the desolations of Jerusalem, that is, seventy years.

Leviticus 26:32

I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell there shall be astonished at it.

Micah 7:13

The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, from the fruit of their deeds.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the Lord said, “How much longer, O  Lord of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah with which You have been angry these seventy years?”

Zechariah 7:5

Say to all the people in the land and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented during the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for Me?