Jeremiah 25:8-14

8“Therefore this is what the Lord of armies says: ‘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 surrounding nations; and I will 3completely destroy them and 4make them an object of horror and 5hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins. 10Moreover, I will 6eliminate from them the voice of jubilation and the voice of joy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the 7sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 118This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 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 wrongdoing, 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 17repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)’”