Jeremiah 25:8-14

8“This is what the Lord of Armies says: You did not listen to my words,

9so I’m going to send for all the families from the north. I will also send for my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, declares the Lord. I will bring the families from the north to attack this land, its people, and all these surrounding nations. I’m going to destroy them and turn them into something terrible, something ridiculed, and something permanently ruined.

10I will take from them the sounds of joy and happiness, the sounds of brides and grooms, the sound of mills, and the light of lamps.

11This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.

12“When the 70 years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation for their crimes, declares the Lord. I will turn Babylon into a permanent wasteland.

13I will bring on that land all the disasters I threatened to do to it, everything that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations, everything written in this book.

14Many nations and great kings will make slaves of the people of Babylon, and I will pay them back for what they have done.”