¹⁹ Then ^(A)they burned the house of God and tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles. ²⁰ And those who had escaped from the sword he ^(B)took away into exile to Babylon; and ^(C)they were slaves to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, ^21 (D)to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until ^(E)the land had made up for its sabbaths. ^(F)All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath ^[a](G)until seventy years were fulfilled.

¹⁹ And they will all come and rest upon the steep ^[a]ravines, on the ^(A)crevices of the cliffs, ^(B)on all the thorn bushes, and on all the ^[b]watering places.

²⁰ In that day, the Lord will ^(C)shave with a ^(D)razor—one ^(E)hired from regions beyond ^(F)the ^[c]River (that is, the king of Assyria)—the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

²¹ And it will be in that day, that a man may keep alive a ^(G)heifer and a pair of sheep; ²² and because of the abundance of the milk produced, he will eat curds, for everyone that is left within the land will eat ^(H)curds and honey.

²³ And it will be in that day, ^(I)that every place where there used to be one thousand vines, valued at ^[d]one thousand shekels of silver, will become ^(J)briars and thorns. ²⁴ People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns. ²⁵ As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for ^[e](K)pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.

Yahweh Will Empty the Earth

24 Behold, Yahweh ^(A)empties the earth to destruction, eviscerates it, distorts its surface, and scatters its inhabitants.

³ The earth will be completely emptied to destruction and completely plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word.

^11 (A)This whole land will be a waste place and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon ^(B)seventy years.