9. I am going to send for all the families of the north’ — this is the Lord’s declaration — ‘and send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them a desolation, a derision, and ruins forever.
10. I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them — the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
11. This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.
12. When the 70 years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation’ — this is the Lord’s declaration — ‘the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, and I will make it a ruin forever.
13. I will bring on that land all My words I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
14. For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.’ ”
15. This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and make all the nations I am sending you to, drink from it.
16. They will drink, stagger, and go out of their minds because of the sword I am sending among them.”
17. So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, everyone the Lord sent me to.
18. These included:Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an object of scorn and cursing — as it is today;
19. Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officers, his leaders, all his people,
20. and all the mixed peoples;all the kings of the land of Uz;all the kings of the land of the Philistines — Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;