Jeremiah 25:12

New American Bible - revised edition

but when the seventy years have elapsed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation and the land of the Chaldeans for their guilt—oracle of the Lord. Their land I will turn into everlasting waste.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:1

During Jehoiakim’s reign Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. Then Jehoiakim turned and rebelled against him.

2 Chronicles 36:22

In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order to realize the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord roused the spirit of Cyrus, King of Persia, to spread this proclamation throughout his kingdom, both by word of mouth and in writing:

Psalm 137:8

Desolate Daughter Babylon, you shall be destroyed, blessed the one who pays you back what you have done us!

Isaiah 13:19

And Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory and pride of the Chaldeans, Shall become like Sodom and Gomorrah, overthrown by God.

Isaiah 14:23

I will make it a haunt of hoot owls and a marshland; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, oracle of the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 15:6

The waters of Nimrim have become a waste, The grass is withered, new growth is gone, nothing is green.

Isaiah 20:1

In the year the general sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, came to Ashdod, fought against it, and captured it—

Isaiah 33:1

Ah! You destroyer never destroyed, betrayer never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; when you have stopped betraying, you will be betrayed.

Isaiah 46:1

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols set upon beasts and cattle; They must be borne upon shoulders, a load for weary animals.

Jeremiah 23:2

Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who shepherd my people: You have scattered my sheep and driven them away. You have not cared for them, but I will take care to punish your evil deeds.

Jeremiah 25:14

They also shall serve many nations and great kings, and thus I will repay them according to their own deeds and according to the works of their hands. The Cup of Judgment on the Nations.

Jeremiah 27:22

To Babylon they shall go, and there they shall remain, until the day I look for them—oracle of the Lord; then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time comes for him and his land; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Jeremiah 29:10

For thus says the Lord: Only after seventy years have elapsed for Babylon will I deal with you and fulfill for you my promise to bring you back to this place.

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make you a desolation forever, your cities will not be inhabited, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Daniel 9:2

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years the Lord had decreed to the prophet Jeremiah: Jerusalem was to lie in ruins for seventy years.

Habakkuk 1:17

Shall they, then, keep on drawing his sword to slaughter nations without mercy?