Jeremiah 25:14

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

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.

American King James Version (AKJV)

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.

American Standard Version (ASV)

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.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

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.

Webster's Revision

For many nations and great kings shall reduce them to subjection also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

World English Bible

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.

English Revised Version (ERV)

For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them, even of them: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.

Definitions for Jeremiah 25:14

Recompense - To repay; reward; restore.

Clarke's Jeremiah 25:14 Bible Commentary

Many nations and great kings - The Medes and the Persians, under Cyrus; and several princes, his vassals or allies.

Barnes's Jeremiah 25:14 Bible Commentary

Shall serve themselves of them also - i. e., shall impose forced labor upon the Chaldaeans, and reduce them also to servitude.