9 behold, I will (A)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, (B)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will (a)utterly destroy them and (C)make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. 10 Moreover, I will (b)(D)take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the (E)sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 (F)This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon (G)seventy years.

Footnotes:

a. Jeremiah 25:9: ['Or ', put them under the ban]
b. Jeremiah 25:10: ['Lit ', cause to perish]

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