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I will soon send for and bring all the families of the north”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“and I will send for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, an enduring desolation.

10 “Moreover, I will silence among them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride,[a] the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

Seventy Years of Desolation

11 “So this whole land will be a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:10 cf. Rev. 18:23.