^11 (A)This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for ^(B)seventy years.

Babylon Will Be Judged

¹² ‘Then it will be ^(C)when seventy years are completed I will ^(D)punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and ^(E)I will make it an everlasting desolation.

¹⁰ “For this is what the Lord says: ‘When ^(A)seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My ^(B)good word to you, to bring you back to this place.