Jeremiah 25:9-11
Read Jeremiah 25 in full →9behold, I will asend and take all the families of the north,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, bMy servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will 1devote them to destruction and cmake them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting waste place. 10‘Moreover, I will 1,amake the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the bsound of the millstones and the light of the lamp, to perish from them. 11‘aThis whole land will be a waste place and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon bseventy years.