7. Yet you have not listened to Me, says the Lord, that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own harm.
8. Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts: Because you have not obeyed My words,
9. I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
10. Moreover I will take from them the voice of laughter and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the candle.
11. This whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12. It shall come to pass when seventy years are finished that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
13. I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
14. For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them. And I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the works of their hands.
15. For thus says the Lord God of Israel to me: Take the wine cup of this fury at My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
16. They will drink, and totter, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.