Impending Judgment on the Earth

¹¹ Then I said, “Lord, how long?”

And He answered:

⁴ therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, the hills, the ^[a]rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which ^(A)became plunder and ^(B)mockery to the rest of the nations all around—

Pride Precedes Captivity

²⁵ In that day,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it will be cut off; for the Lord has spoken.’ ”

¹⁷ and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it.”

²¹ to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of ^(A)Jeremiah, until the land ^(B)had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate ^(C)she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

²⁸ And the Lord ^(A)uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’