¹⁴ For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(A)“I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him. ^(B)I have given him the beasts of the field also.” ’ ”

⁴⁸ therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in ^(A)hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He ^(B)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.

^6 (A)And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant; and ^(C)the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him. ^7 (D)So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son, ^(E)until the time of his land comes; ^(F)and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.

^12 (A)“The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. ¹³ These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.

^38 (A)and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all—^(B)you are this head of gold.

⁴ And now look, I free you this day from the chains that ^[a]were on your hand. ^(A)If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you. But if it seems wrong for you to come with me to Babylon, remain here. See, ^(B)all the land is before you; wherever it seems good and convenient for you to go, go there.”

⁴ And command them to say to their masters, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel—thus you shall say to your masters:

⁹ behold, I will send and take ^(A)all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(B)My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and ^(C)make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. ¹⁰ Moreover I will ^[a]take from them the ^(D)voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ^(E)the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. ¹¹ And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy ^(F)years.

¹² ‘Then it will come to pass, ^(G)when ^[b]seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ^(H)‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. ¹³ So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations. ^14 (I)(For many nations ^(J)and great kings shall ^(K)be served by them also; ^(L)and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)’ ”

Judgment on the Nations

¹⁵ For thus says the Lord God of Israel to me: “Take this ^(M)wine cup of ^[c]fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. ¹⁶ And ^(N)they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”

¹⁷ Then I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the Lord had sent me: ¹⁸ Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them ^(O)a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and ^(P)a curse, as it is this day; ¹⁹ Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, and all his people; ²⁰ all the mixed multitude, all the kings of ^(Q)the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the ^(R)Philistines (namely, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and ^(S)the remnant of Ashdod); ^21 (T)Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon; ²² all the kings of ^(U)Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are across the ^(V)sea; ^23 (W)Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners; ²⁴ all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the ^(X)mixed multitude who dwell in the desert; ²⁵ all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^(Y)Elam, and all the kings of the ^(Z)Medes; ^26 (AA)all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. Also the king of ^[d]Sheshach shall drink after them.

⁴ that you ^(A)will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: