8 "Therefore Yahveh of hosts says this: 'Because you have not listened to my words,

9 "'I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,' declares Yahveh, 'and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations.  I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.

10 ""I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.

11 "'This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

12 "'But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt,' declares Yahveh, 'and will make it desolate forever....'"