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'1Thiswholeland will be a desolation and a horror, and thesenations will serve the king of Babylon2seventyyears.
Babylon Will Be Judged
12 'Then it will be 3when seventyyears are completed I will 4punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares the LORD, 'for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and 5I will make it an everlastingdesolation.
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'I will bring upon that landall My wordswhich I have pronouncedagainst it, all that is written in 6thisbookwhichJeremiah has prophesiedagainst7all the nations.
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'(For 8manynations and greatkings will makeslaves of them, even them; and I will 9recompense them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)' "