⁸ Therefore^[a] thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘Because you have not obeyed my words, ⁹ look, I am going to send and take all the clans^[b] of the north,’ declares^[c] Yahweh, ‘and I will send^[d] to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations all around, and I will destroy them, and I will make them a horror, and an object of hissing, and everlasting ruins.^{[e] 10} And I will exterminate from them the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. ¹¹ And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.^[f]