Jer 25:3-14 | ESV | STEP | For twenty-three years , from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon , king of Judah , to this day , the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened .

3 “For twenty-three years, ^afrom the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken ^bpersistently to you, ^cbut you have not listened. 4 ^dYou have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the Lord ^epersistently sent to you all his servants the prophets, 5 saying, ^f‘Turn now, every one of you, ^gfrom his evil way and evil deeds, and ^hdwell upon the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever. 6 ⁱDo not go after other gods to serve and worship them, ^jor provoke me to anger ^kwith the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’ 7 ^lYet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, ^mthat you might provoke me to anger ⁿwith the work of your hands to your own harm.

8 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, 9 ^obehold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^pmy servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, ^qand make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. 10 Moreover, ^rI will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ^sthe grinding of the millstones and ^tthe light of the lamp. 11 ^uThis whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and ^vthese nations shall serve the king of Babylon ^wseventy years. 12 Then after ^xseventy years are completed, ^yI will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, ^zthe land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, ^aamaking the land an everlasting waste. 13 I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written ^abin this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. 14 ^acFor many nations ^adand great kings shall make slaves even of them, ^aeand I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”