Jer 25:9-14, 27:5-7, Dan 3:4, 4:22, Hab 2:5, Rom 13:1 | ESV | STEP | behold , I will send for all the tribes of the north , declares the Lord , and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon , my servant , and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants , and against all these surrounding nations . I will devote them to destruction , and make them a horror , a hissing , and an everlasting desolation .

9 ^abehold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^bmy servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, ^cand make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. 10 Moreover, ^dI will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ^ethe grinding of the millstones and ^fthe light of the lamp. 11 ^gThis whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and ^hthese nations shall serve the king of Babylon ⁱseventy years. 12 Then after ^jseventy years are completed, ^kI will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, ^lthe land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, ^mmaking the land an everlasting waste. 13 I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written ⁿin this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. 14 ^oFor many nations ^pand great kings shall make slaves even of them, ^qand I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”

Jeremiah 27:5-7

5 “It is I who ^rby my great power and my outstretched arm ^shave made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, ^tand I give it to whomever it seems right to me. 6 ^uNow I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, ^vmy servant, ^wand I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him. 7 ^xAll the nations shall serve him and ^yhis son and ^zhis grandson, ^aauntil the time of his own land comes. ^abThen many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

Daniel 3:4

4 And the herald ^acproclaimed aloud, “You are commanded, O ^adpeoples, nations, and languages,

Daniel 4:22

22 ^aeit is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. ^afYour greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, ^agand your dominion to the ends of the earth.

Habakkuk 2:5

5 “Moreover, wine ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth} is ^aia traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain}
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death ^akhe has never enough.
^alHe gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”

Romans 13:1

Submission to the Authorities

1 Let every person ^ambe subject to the governing authorities. For ^anthere is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.