6. Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’
7. Yet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
8. “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,
9. behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, 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, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
10. Moreover, 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, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
11. This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12. Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.
13. I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
14. For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”
15. Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
16. They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword that I am sending among them.”
17. So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it:
18. Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;
19. Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people,
20. and all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);