Jeremiah 25:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:20

He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Jeremiah 25:12

Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, says the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.

Jeremiah 25:38

Like a lion he has left his den, for their land has become a waste because of the cruel anger and because of his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 27:22

They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall stay, until the day when I give attention to them, says the Lord. Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.

Jeremiah 27:7

All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

Jeremiah 28:14

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put an iron yoke on the neck of all these nations so that they may serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and they shall indeed serve him; I have even given him the wild animals.

Jeremiah 29:10

For thus says the Lord: Only when Babylon’s seventy years are completed will I visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.

Jeremiah 4:26

I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be a desolation, 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: I am going to send and take my servant King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have buried, and he will spread his royal canopy over them.

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear the sight of your evil doings, the abominations that you committed; therefore your land became a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is to 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 fearfulness and drink their water in dismay, because their land shall be stripped of all it contains, on account of the violence of all those who live in it.

Ezekiel 29:11

No human foot shall pass through it, and no animal foot shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.

Ezekiel 6:14

I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, throughout all their settlements, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Daniel 9:2

I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, must be fulfilled for the devastation of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

Leviticus 26:32

I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to settle in it shall be appalled at it.

Micah 7:13

But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the Lord said, “O Lord of hosts, how long 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 of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and in the seventh for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?