They shall be carried to Babylon. — The fulfilment of the prediction is recorded in 2 Kings 25:13.

Until the day that I visit them. — The date is not given definitely, but seventy years had been already named as the period between the plunder and the restoration (Jeremiah 25:12). Here the undefined vagueness of “the day that I will visit them” is contrasted with the equally indefinite but more exciting “shortly” of the false prophets (Jeremiah 27:16).

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