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behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' says the Lord, 'and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
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Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
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And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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'Then it will come to pass, when 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; 'and I will make it a perpetual desolation.
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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.
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(For many nations and great kings shall be served by them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)' "
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For thus says the Lord God of Israel to me: "Take this wine cup of fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
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And they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."
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Then I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the Lord had sent me:
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Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
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Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, and all his people;
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all the mixed multitude, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (namely, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);
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Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon;
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all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are across the sea;
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Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners;
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all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed multitude who dwell in the desert;
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all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
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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 Sheshach shall drink after them.
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"Therefore you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "Drink, be drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you." '
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And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: "You shall certainly drink!
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For behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth," says the Lord of hosts.'