Jeremiah 25:10-12

Expanded Bible

¹⁰ I will ·bring an end to [banish; cause to perish] the sounds of joy and happiness, the sounds of brides and bridegrooms [7:34; 16:9], and the sound of ·people grinding meal [^Lthe millstone]. And I will take away the light of the lamp. ¹¹ That whole ·area [^Lland] will be an ·empty desert [ruin and desolate], and these nations will ·be slaves of [serve] the king of Babylon [^CNebuchadnezzar] for seventy years [^Cthe exile].

¹² “But when the seventy years ·have passed [are completed], I will punish the king of Babylon and his entire nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their ·evil [iniquity],” says the Lord. “I will make that land a ·desert [desolation] forever.