Jeremiah 25:2-11

2which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the 1people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 3“From the 2thirteenth year of 3Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, 4these 5twenty-three years the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you 67again and again, but you have not listened. 4And the Lord has sent to you all His 8servants the prophets 9again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear, 5saying, ‘10Turn now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the land which the Lord has given to you and your forefathers 11forever and ever; 6and 12do not go after other gods to 13serve them and to 14worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will do you no harm.’ 7Yet you have not listened to Me,” declares the Lord, “in order that you might 15provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

8“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, 9behold, I will 16send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, 17My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will 18utterly destroy them and 19make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. 10Moreover, I will 2021take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the 22sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 1123This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon 24seventy years.