1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Jeremiah 25:12 | And when the seventy years shall be expired, I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans: and I will make it perpetual desolations. | Punish. Literally, visit upon. (Challoner) --- Cyrus overturned the monarchy, and the city was ruined by degrees, Isaias xiii., and xiv., and 21:1., and Ezechiel 1:5. (Calmet) |