Judgment upon Judah and Her Neighbours

8 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of Hosts: Because ye have not listened to My words, 9 I will send and fetch a clan from the north, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against the surrounding nation. I will devote them to destruction so appalling that men shall hiss and revile them for ever; 10 and I will banish from them the voice of mirth and gladness, the voice of bridegroom and bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 This whole land shall be a waste and a horror, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

12 When, however, seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their guilt, and also the land of the Chaldeans, which I will make desolate for ever; 13 and I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it – everything prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations, that is recorded in this Book. 14 They, yes they, shall be reduced to slavery at the hands of many nations and of great kings, and I will give them the reward that their acts and deeds deserve.