6. And ye do not go after other gods to serve them, and to bow yourselves to them, nor do ye provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I do no evil to you;
7. And ye have not hearkened unto Me--an affirmation of Jehovah--so as to provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands for evil to you.
8. `Therefore thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Because that ye have not obeyed My words,
9. Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the north--an affirmation of Jehovah--even unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and have brought them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and have devoted them, and appointed them for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for wastes ageduring.
10. And I have destroyed from them the voice of rejoicing, and the voice of joy, voice of bridegroom and voice of bride, noise of millstones, and the light of lamps.
11. And all this land hath been for a waste, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years.
12. `And it hath come to pass, at the fulness of seventy years, I charge against the king of Babylon, and against that nation--an affirmation of Jehovah--their iniquity, and against the land of the Chaldeans, and have appointed it for desolations age-during.
13. And I have brought in on that land all My words that I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book, that Jeremiah hath prophesied concerning all the nations.
14. For laid service on them--also them--have many nations and great kings, and I have given recompence to them according to their doing, and according to the work of their hands.
15. `For thus said Jehovah God of Israel unto me, Take the wine cup of this fury out of My hand, and thou hast caused all the nations to drink it unto whom I am sending thee;
16. And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them.
17. `And I take the cup out of the hand of Jehovah, and cause all the nations to drink unto whom Jehovah sent me:
18. Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, And its kings, its heads, To give them to waste, to astonishment, To hissing, and to reviling, as [at] this day.
19. Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, And his heads, and all his people,
20. And all the mixed people, And all the kings of the land of Uz, And all the kings of the land of the Philistines, And Ashkelon, and Gazzah, and Ekron, And the remnant of Ashdod,
21. Edom, and Moab, and the sons of Ammon,
22. And all the kings of Tyre, And all the kings of Zidon, And the kings of the isle that [is] beyond the sea,
23. Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, And all cutting the corners [of the beard],
24. And all the kings of Arabia, And all the kings of the mixed people, Who are dwelling in the wilderness,