⁶ The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon.^(A) Nothing will be left, says the Lord.

⁴ For this is what the Lord says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; with your own eyes^(A) you will see them fall by the sword of their enemies. I will give^(B) all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, who will carry^(C) them away to Babylon or put them to the sword.

² So Jeremiah the prophet said to all the people of Judah^(A) and to all those living in Jerusalem: ³ For twenty-three years—from the thirteenth year of Josiah^(B) son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—the word of the Lord has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again,^(C) but you have not listened.^(D)

⁴ And though the Lord has sent all his servants the prophets^(E) to you again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention.^{(F) 5} They said, “Turn^(G) now, each of you, from your evil ways and your evil practices, and you can stay in the land^(H) the Lord gave to you and your ancestors for ever and ever. ⁶ Do not follow other gods^(I) to serve and worship them; do not arouse my anger with what your hands have made. Then I will not harm you.”

⁷ “But you did not listen to me,” declares the Lord, “and you have aroused^(J) my anger with what your hands have made,^(K) and you have brought harm^(L) to yourselves.”

⁸ Therefore the Lord Almighty says this: “Because you have not listened to my words, ⁹ I will summon^(M) all the peoples of the north^(N) and my servant^(O) Nebuchadnezzar^(P) 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](Q) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,^(R) and an everlasting ruin.^{(S) 10} I will banish from them the sounds^(T) of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom,^(U) the sound of millstones^(V) and the light of the lamp.^{(W) 11} This whole country will become a desolate wasteland,^(X) and these nations will serve^(Y) the king of Babylon seventy years.^(Z)

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)