Jeremiah 25:11

The Passion Translation

The entire region will become a ruin, empty as a desert, and these nations will be carried off to Babylon to serve her king for seventy years.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland, and no one will cultivate the land. It will grow only weeds and thorns! I will command the clouds and they will not drop their rain upon it!

Jeremiah 25:12

“ ‘Then, after seventy years, I will punish the king of Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans for their sin,’ declares Yahweh. ‘I will make their land desolate forever.

Jeremiah 25:38

The lion has left his lair, and their land is left a wasteland because of the sword of the oppressor and because of his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 27:22

will be carried off to Babylon, and ‘they will stay there until the day that I restore them and bring them back where they belong,’ declares Yahweh.”

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson —until the time of the fall of his own kingdom comes, when other nations and great kings will make him their servant.

Jeremiah 28:14

For Yahweh, the God of Israel, Commander of Angel Armies, says: I now lay on the necks of all these nations a heavy iron yoke to enslave them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. They will be enslaved to him; I will even make the wild animals serve him!’ ”

Jeremiah 29:10

I say to you: After Babylon has ruled over you for seventy years, I will show compassion to you and will fulfill my promise of giving you good things, and I will bring you back to your land.”

Jeremiah 4:26

I looked at the once fruitful land, now nothing but a desert, all its cities left in ruins before Yahweh’s burning anger.

Jeremiah 4:27

“For I, Yahweh, have spoken: ‘The whole land will remain desolate; however, the end of the world is not yet.

Jeremiah 43:10

Then say to them, ‘Yahweh, God of Israel, says this: I will send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. He will set up his throne on the exact spot where I buried these stones and spread his royal tent over them.

Jeremiah 44:22

He could not endure your wicked and disgusting practices any longer. He placed a curse on your land and turned it into a desert without inhabitants as it is today.

Ezekiel 12:19

Tell the people, ‘Lord Yahweh says this to the inhabitants of Jerusalem who remain in the land of Israel. They will tremble as they eat their food, and shake with fear when they drink their water because their enemies will strip the land bare on account of the violence of those who live there.

Ezekiel 29:11

No person or animal will pass through it. For forty years it will remain uninhabited.

Ezekiel 6:14

I will stretch out my mighty arm against them and turn the land wherever they live into a complete wasteland from the desert to Riblah. And when this happens, they will be convinced that I am Yahweh!”

Daniel 9:2

During his first year of rule, I, Daniel, was studying the Scriptures and noticed that according to the word Yahweh had revealed to the prophet Jeremiah, seventy years must pass while Jerusalem lay in ruins.