Jeremiah 25:9-18

9I am going to send for all the families of the north’  — this is the Lord’s declaration — ‘and send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror and scorn, and ruins forever.

10I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them — the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

11This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

12When the seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation’ — this is the Lord’s declaration — ‘the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, and I will make it a ruin forever.

13I will bring on that land all my words I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.

14For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.’”

15This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink from it.

16They will drink, stagger, and go out of their minds because of the sword I am sending among them.”

17So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink from it.

18Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an example for scorn and cursing — as it is today;