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Jeremiah 29:10
For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD speaks to the Israelite exiles in Babylon, addressing them immediately after warning against false prophets who deny His timeline. This declaration occurs within a letter instructing the displaced community to settle into their current reality.
The words — מְלֹ֧את (me.Lot) denotes the period that will be completed, and לְ/בָבֶ֛ל (le./va.Vel) specifies the location of exile. These terms anchor the promise to a fixed duration and a specific geographic reality.
The thread — The seventy-year timeframe surfaces in Daniel 9:2 as a prophetic benchmark understood by Daniel. The promise of return to the land echoes Jeremiah 24:6, while the pattern of mourning and restoration aligns with Zechariah 7:5.
Why it lands — The text demands patient endurance while the appointed period runs its course. It requires the reader to accept divine timing over immediate deliverance and to trust the stated commitment to restoration.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Cross-references
- Daniel 9:2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
- Jeremiah 24:6 I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.
- Zechariah 7:5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
- Jeremiah 25:12 But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
- Jeremiah 27:22 ‘They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,’ declares the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’”
- Jeremiah 32:42 For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21 So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.
- Zephaniah 2:7 The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will attend to them and restore their captives.
- Jeremiah 27:7 All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.