| 8 | "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, |
| 9 | behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the LORD, and for Nebuchadrez'zar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach. |
| 10 | Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp. |
| 11 | This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. |
| 12 | Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chalde'ans, for their iniquity, says the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste. |