Jeremiah 25:11-13

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¹¹ That whole ·area [^Lland] will be an ·empty desert [ruin and desolate], and these nations will ·be slaves of [serve] the king of Babylon [^CNebuchadnezzar] for seventy years [^Cthe exile].

¹² “But when the seventy years ·have passed [are completed], I will punish the king of Babylon and his entire nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their ·evil [iniquity],” says the Lord. “I will make that land a ·desert [desolation] forever. ¹³ I will ·make happen [^Lbring on this land] all the ·terrible things [^Lwords] I said about it [^CBabylonia]—everything Jeremiah prophesied about all those foreign nations, the warnings written in this book [chs. 46–51].