Jeremiah 25:9–14

9 behold, I will asend and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘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 nations round about; and I will 1utterly destroy them and cmake them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

10 ‘Moreover, I will 1atake from them 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.

11 ‘aThis whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon bseventy years.

Babylon Will Be Judged

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

13 ‘I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in athis book which Jeremiah has prophesied against ball the nations.

14 ‘(1For amany nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will brecompense them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)’ ”