Jeremiah 25:4-9

4And the Lord has sent to you all His 1servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear, 5saying, ‘2Turn 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 3forever and ever; 6and 4do not follow other gods to 5serve them and to 6worship 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 7provoke 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 8send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, 9My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will 10completely destroy them and 11make them an object of horror and 12hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.