I will summon(A) all the peoples of the north(B) and my servant(C) Nebuchadnezzar(D) king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy[a](E) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,(F) and an everlasting ruin.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:9 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.

28 Therefore this is what the Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar(A) king of Babylon, who will capture it.(B)

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11 But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded(A) this land, we said, ‘Come, we must go to Jerusalem(B) to escape the Babylonian[a] and Aramean armies.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 35:11 Or Chaldean

Then the nations(A) came against him,
    those from regions round about.
They spread their net(B) for him,
    and he was trapped in their pit.(C)

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