11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy (A)years.

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11 This whole country will become a desolate wasteland,(A) and these nations will serve(B) the king of Babylon seventy years.(C)

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18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them (A)a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and (B)a curse, as it is this day;

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18 Jerusalem(A) and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin(B) and an object of horror and scorn,(C) a curse[a](D)—as they are today;(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:18 That is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed

38 He has left His lair like the lion;
For their land is desolate
Because of the fierceness of the Oppressor,
And because of His fierce anger.”

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38 Like a lion(A) he will leave his lair,
    and their land will become desolate(B)
because of the sword[a] of the oppressor(C)
    and because of the Lord’s fierce anger.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:38 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 46:16 and 50:16); most Hebrew manuscripts anger