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12 “‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation[a] for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon[b] an everlasting ruin.[c] I, the Lord, affirm it![d]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:12 tn Heb “that nation.”
  2. Jeremiah 25:12 tn Heb “the land of the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for the use of the term “Chaldeans.”
  3. Jeremiah 25:12 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 Cf. Isa 13:19-22; Jer 50:39-40.
  4. Jeremiah 25:12 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”