⁹behold, I will ^asend and take all the families of the north,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^bMy servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will ¹devote them to destruction and ^cmake them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting waste place.

¹⁰‘Moreover, I will ¹^amake the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the ^bsound of the millstones and the light of the lamp, to perish from them.

¹¹‘^aThis whole land will be a waste place and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon ^bseventy years.

Punishment Against Babylon

¹²‘Then it will be ^awhen seventy years are fulfilled, that I will ^bpunish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares Yahweh, ‘for their iniquity, even the land of the Chaldeans; and ^cI will make it an everlasting desolation.

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Footnotes

1Or put them under the ban
1Lit cause to perish

Cross references

a Jer 1:15; 6:22, 23
b Is 13:3; Jer 27:6; 43:10
c 1 Kin 9:7, 8; Jer 18:16; 25:18
a Is 24:8–11; Jer 7:34; 16:9; Ezek 26:13; Rev 18:23
b Eccl 12:4; Is 47:2
a Jer 4:27; 12:11, 12
b 2 Chr 36:21; Jer 29:10; Dan 9:2; Zech 7:5
a Ezra 1:1; Jer 29:10; Dan 9:2
b Is 13:14; Jer ch 50, 51
c Is 13:19