Jeremiah 25:3-9

3“From the 1thirteenth year of 2Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, 3these 4twenty-three years the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you 56again and again, but you have not listened. 4And the Lord has sent to you all His 7servants the prophets 8again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear, 5saying, ‘9Turn 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 10forever and ever; 6and 11do not go after other gods to 12serve them and to 13worship 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 14provoke 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 15send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, 16My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will 17utterly destroy them and 18make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.