Jeremiah 25:8-14

8“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, 9behold, I will 1send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, 2My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will 3utterly destroy them and 4make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. 10Moreover, I will 56take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the 7sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 118This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon 9seventy years.

12‘Then it will be 10when seventy years are completed I will 11punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and 12I will make it an everlasting desolation. 13I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in 13this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against 14all the nations. 14(15For 16many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will 17recompense them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)’”