Nevertheless, ye would not hear me, saith the Lord, but have provoked me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Because ye have not heard my words,

Behold, I will send and take to me all the [a]families of the North, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babel my [b]servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations [c]round about, and will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and an hissing, and a continual desolation.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:9 The Chaldeans and all their power.
  2. Jeremiah 25:9 So the wicked and Satan himself are God’s servants, because he maketh them to serve him by constraint, and turneth that which they do of malice, to his honor and glory.
  3. Jeremiah 25:9 As the Philistines, Ammonites, Egyptians and others.

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