Jeremiah 25:12-14

B. Judgment on Babylon Jeremiah 25:12-14

TRANSLATION

(12) But it shall come to pass when seventy years are completed I will visit upon the king of Babylon, even upon that nation, their iniquity, even upon the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever. (13) And I will bring upon that land all My words which I have spoken concerning it, all that is written in this book which Jeremiah prophesied concerning all the nations. (14) For many nations and great kings shall make servants of them, even them; and I will repay them according to their works, and according to the deeds of their hands.

COMMENTS

The Ruler of all nations will not allow Babylon to go unpunished for her crimes against humanity. Babylon is merely a tool used of God for a time and then discarded. Jeremiah was not pro-Babylonian. Here he makes a specific prediction that after seventy years of Babylonian world rule that nation too would be visited by the God of judgment. To visit someone's sins upon them is to punish them for their wrong doings. The land of the Chaldeans would become a perpetual desolation (Jeremiah 25:12). Every word which God had spoken and which Jeremiah had preached and written about Babylon would be fulfilled (Jeremiah 25:13). God would recompense the Chaldeans for their wicked works. Many kings and great nations would again and again enslave the Chaldeans (Jeremiah 25:14). Babylon fell first to the Medes and Persians, and then to the Greeks and Parthians.