Jeremiah 25:12

“‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation ¹  for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon ²  an everlasting ruin. ³  I, the Lord, affirm it! ⁴ 

De 32:35-42; 2Ki 24:1; Ezr 1:1,2; Isa 13:1-14:32; Isa 13:19; Isa 14:23; Isa 15:6; Isa 20:1-6; Isa 21:1-17; Isa 46:1-47:15; Isa 47:1; Jer 23:2; Jer 25:14; Jer 29:10; Jer 50:1-51:64; Jer 50:3,13,23,39,40,45; Jer 51:25,26,62-64; Eze 35:9; Da 5:1-31; Da 9:2; Hab 2:1-20; Re 18:1-24

¹ tn Heb “that nation.”

² tn Heb “the land of the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for the use of the term “Chaldeans.”

³ tn Heb “I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, oracle of the Lord, their iniquity even upon the land of the Chaldeans and I will make it everlasting ruins.” The sentence has been restructured to avoid ambiguity and to conform the style more to contemporary English.

sn Compare Isa 13:19-22 and Jer 50:39-40.

⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”