10. I will take away your happy singing and laughter. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard. Your millstones will fall silent, and the lights in your homes will go out.
11. This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
12. “Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the lord. “I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever.
13. I will bring upon them all the terrors I have promised in this book—all the penalties announced by Jeremiah against the nations.
14. Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylonians, just as they enslaved my people. I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people.”
15. This is what the lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
16. When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed by the warfare I will send against them.”
17. So I took the cup of anger from the lord and made all the nations drink from it—every nation to which the lord sent me.
18. I went to Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah, and their kings and officials drank from the cup. From that day until this, they have been a desolate ruin, an object of horror, contempt, and cursing.
19. I gave the cup to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials, and all his people,