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]. ¹⁴ Even they [^CBabylonians] will have to serve many nations and many great kings. I will ·give them the punishment they deserve for all their own hands have done [^Lrepay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands].”