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 5again and again, but you have not listened. 4And the Lord has sent to you all His 6servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear, 5saying, ‘7Turn now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and live on the land which the Lord has given to you and your forefathers 8forever and ever; 6and 9do not follow other gods to 10serve them and to 11worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, then I will do you no harm.’ 7Yet you have not listened to Me,” declares the Lord, “in order to 12provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

8“Therefore this is what the Lord of armies says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, 9behold, I will 13send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, 14My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will 15completely destroy them and 16make them an object of horror and 17hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.