Jeremiah Chapter 25 verse 14 Holy Bible

ASV Jeremiah 25:14

For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
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BBE Jeremiah 25:14

For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.
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DARBY Jeremiah 25:14

For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
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KJV Jeremiah 25:14

For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
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WBT Jeremiah 25:14


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WEB Jeremiah 25:14

For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
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YLT Jeremiah 25:14

For laid service on them -- also them -- have many nations and great kings, and I have given recompence to them according to their doing, and according to the work of their hands.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - For many nations... shall serve themselves of them else; i.e. put forced labor upon them also. The same phrase is used of the conduct of the Egyptians to the Israelites (Exodus 1:14). Of them also; and "also" suggests that the calamity of the Chaldeans is a retribution (comp. Isaiah 66:4), as the next clause, in harmony with Jeremiah 50:29, 51:24, emphatically declares.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Shall serve themselves of them.--Better, shall make them their servants. The English "serve themselves" (a Gallicism in common use in the seventeenth century), which occurs again in Jeremiah 27:7, is now ambiguous, and hardly conveys the force of the original. What is meant is that the law of retribution will in due time be seen in its action upon those who were now masters of the world. The thought is the same as that expressed in the familiar "Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit" of Horace (Ep II. i., 156).