4. The Lord kept sending you all his servants the prophets, but you refused to listen or pay attention
5. to this message: Turn back, each of you, from your evil way and from your evil deeds; then you shall remain in the land which the Lord gave you and your ancestors, from of old and forever.
6. Do not follow other gods to serve and bow down to them; do not provoke me with the works of your hands, or I will bring evil upon you.
7. But you would not listen to me—oracle of the Lord—and so you provoked me with the works of your hands to your own harm.
8. Hence, thus says the Lord of hosts: Since you would not listen to my words,
9. I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the Lord—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.
10. Among them I will put to an end the song of joy and the song of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstone and the light of the lamp.
11. This whole land shall be a ruin and a waste. Seventy years these nations shall serve the king of Babylon;
12. but when the seventy years have elapsed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation and the land of the Chaldeans for their guilt—oracle of the Lord. Their land I will turn into everlasting waste.
13. Against that land I will fulfill all the words I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.