11. ... The meaning is that “the families of the north” shall bring the Jews and the other nations into bondage. seventy years] the approximate length of the ...

The period of desolation, lasting for seventy years, symbolizes divine judgment and the need for restoration.

God is now going to punish Judah, and will use Babylon as his instrument of punishment. Joy and gladness will cease from Judah, the land will be left in ruins, ...

Not only the city of Jerusalem, but all Judea, without inhabitants, or very few, and shall be uncultivated, and become barren and unfruitful: [and] an ...

KJV And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

David Guzik commentary on Jeremiah 25 describes the cup of fury in God's hand, bringing seventy years of judgment on Judah and Jerusalem.

This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of Judea by the king of Babylon; and also of Babylon itself, after the Jews' captivity of seventy years; and ...

And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

New International Version This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.