Jeremiah 25:9

9 abehold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, bmy servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, cand make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

Jeremiah 25:12

12Then after dseventy years are completed, eI will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, fthe land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, gmaking the land an everlasting waste.

Jeremiah 26:6-7

6then I will make this house hlike Shiloh, and I will make this city ia curse for all the nations of the earth.’”

7 jThe priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 27:12-13

12To kZedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: lBring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and mserve him and his people and live. 13 nWhy will you and your people die oby the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, pas the Lord has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Jeremiah 29:10

10For thus says the Lord: qWhen seventy years are completed for Babylon, rI will visit you, sand I will fulfill to you my promise tand bring you back to this place.

Daniel 9:2

2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to uthe word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

Zechariah 1:4-6

4 vDo not be like your fathers, wto whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, xReturn from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But ythey did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. 5Your fathers, where are they? And zthe prophets, do they live forever? 6 aaBut my words and my statutes, which I commanded abmy servants the prophets, did they not acovertake your fathers? So they repented and said, ad‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for aeour ways and afdeeds, so has he dealt with us.’”

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