Jeremiah 25:8-14

New American Standard Bible

⁸ “Therefore this is what the Lord of armies says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, ⁹ behold, I will ^(A)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will ^[a]completely destroy them and ^(C)make them an object of horror and ^[b]hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins. ¹⁰ Moreover, I will ^(D)eliminate from them the voice of jubilation and the voice of joy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the ^(E)sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. ^11 (F)This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for ^(G)seventy years.

Babylon Will Be Judged

¹² ‘Then it will be ^(H)when seventy years are completed I will ^(I)punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and ^(J)I will make it an everlasting desolation. ¹³ I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in ^(K)this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against ^(L)all the nations. ¹⁴ (^[c]For ^(M)many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will ^(N)repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)’”