⁹ behold, I will ^(A)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will ^[a]completely destroy them and ^(C)make them an object of horror and ^[b]hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.

⁶ And now I ^(A)have handed all these lands over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and I have also given him the ^(C)animals of the field to serve him.