Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 25:11

A church father on this verse
“[Daniel 5:2] "Being now drunken, he therefore gave order that the golden and silver vessels be brought in which his father, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken away from the temple which was in Jerusalem, in order that the king might drink from them..." The Hebrews hand down some such story as this: that up until the seventieth…”
Jerome, 5th c. — St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER FIVE

Source: Septuagint

Original

11And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.

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In context

9behold, I will send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it, and I will make them utterly waste, and make them a desolation, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

10And I will destroy from among them the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle.

— Jeremiah 25:11 —

12And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.

13And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have spoken against it, even all things that are written in this book.

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