4. And though Yahweh has sent all his servants the prophets to you over and over again you have not listened, and you have not inclined your ear to hear,
5. saying, ‘Turn back please, each one from his evil way, and from the evil of your deeds, and live on the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your ancestors from a long time back and until forever,
6. and you must not go after other gods to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, and you must not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, then I will not do something bad to you.’
7. ‘Yet you have not listened to me,’ declares Yahweh, ‘so that you have provoked me to anger with the work of your hands for your own harm.’
8. Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘Because you have not obeyed my words,
9. look, I am going to send and take all the clans of the north,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations all around, and I will destroy them, and I will make them a horror, and an object of hissing, and everlasting ruins.
10. And I will exterminate from them the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
11. And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12. And then when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares Yahweh, ‘for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it an everlasting waste.
13. And I will bring upon that land all my words that I have spoken against it, everything that is written in this scroll which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
14. For many nations and great kings will let them work, even them, and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.’ ”
15. For thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me, “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and you must give it to all the nations to whom I am sending you to drink.
16. And they will drink, and they will stagger, and they will act like madmen because of the presence of the sword that I am sending among them.”
17. So I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and I gave it to all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me to drink:
18. Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and its kings, and its officials, to make them a site of ruins, a horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
19. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his officials, and all his people;
20. and all the other people; and all the kings of the land of Uz; and all the kings of the land of the Philistines—Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;