7. Yet you have not hearkened unto me,
8. Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts;
9. Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,
10. Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
11. And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation,
13. And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that are written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
14. For many nations and great kings shall be served by them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
15. For thus says the LORD God of Israel unto me;
16. And they shall drink, and stagger, and go mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.