10 Moreover, I will [a](A)take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the (B)sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 (C)This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon (D)seventy years.

Babylon Will Be Judged

12 ‘Then it will be (E)when seventy years are completed I will (F)punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and (G)I will make it an everlasting desolation.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:10 Lit cause to perish