4. And though the Lord has sent all his servants the prophets to you again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention.
5. They said, “Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and your evil practices, and you can stay in the land the Lord gave to you and your ancestors for ever and ever.
6. Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them; do not arouse my anger with what your hands have made. Then I will not harm you.”
7. “But you did not listen to me,” declares the Lord, “and you have aroused my anger with what your hands have made, and you have brought harm to yourselves.”
8. Therefore the Lord Almighty says this: “Because you have not listened to my words,
9. I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.
10. I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.
11. This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12. “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate forever.
13. I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations.
14. They themselves will be enslaved by many nations and great kings; 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 from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.