Jeremiah 25:11

11 '¹This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon ²seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:11 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 25:11

And this whole land shall be a desolation
Not only the city of Jerusalem, but all Judea, without inhabitants, or very few, and shall be uncultivated, and become barren and unfruitful: [and] an astonishment;
to all other nations, and to all persons that pass through, beholding the desolations of it: and other nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years;
both the Jews, and other nations of Egypt, reckoning from the date of this prophecy, the fourth year of Jehoiakim's reign, when Daniel and others were carried captive, ( Daniel 1:1-6 ) ; to the first year of Cyrus.

Jeremiah 25:11 In-Context

9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD , 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

10 'Moreover, I will take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

11 'This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

12 'Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares the LORD , 'for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

13 'I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 4:27; Jeremiah 12:11, 12
• 2. 2 Chronicles 36:21; Jeremiah 29:10; Daniel 9:2; Zechariah 7:5