Jeremiah 25:8-12

English Standard Version

⁸“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, ⁹^(A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, ^(C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. ¹⁰Moreover, ^(D)I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ^(E)the grinding of the millstones and ^(F)the light of the lamp. ¹¹^(G)This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and ^(H)these nations shall serve the king of Babylon ^(I)seventy years. ¹²Then after ^(J)seventy years are completed, ^(K)I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, ^(L)the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, ^(M)making the land an everlasting waste.