6. Do not follow other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger by the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.
7. “ ‘But you would not obey Me’ — this is the Lord’s declaration — ‘in order that you might provoke Me to anger by the work of your hands and bring disaster on yourselves.’
8. “Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
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.”