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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);