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behold, I will ^(C1)send and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(C2)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will ^(F1)completely destroy them and ^(C3)make them an object of horror and ^(F2)hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.

'Moreover, I will ^(C1)eliminate from them the voice of jubilation and the voice of joy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the ^(C2)sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

'^(C1)This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for ^(C2)seventy years.

'Then it will be ^(C1)when seventy years are completed I will ^(C2)punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares the LORD, 'for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and ^(C3)I will make it an everlasting desolation.

'I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in ^(C1)this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against ^(C2)all the nations.

'(^(F1)For ^(C1)many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will ^(C2)repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)'"

For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to me: "Take this ^(C1)cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and give it to all the nations to whom I send you, to drink from it.

"Then they will ^(C1)drink and loudly vomit and act insanely because of the sword that I am going to send among them."

So I took the cup from the LORD'S hand and ^(C1)gave it to all the nations to whom the LORD sent me, to drink from it:

To ^(C1)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, ^(F1)hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

To ^(C1)Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people;

and to all the ^(C1)foreign ^(F1)people, all the kings of the ^(C2)land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the ^(C3)Philistines (that is, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ^(C4)Ashdod);

To ^(C1)Edom, ^(C2)Moab, and the sons of ^(C3)Ammon;