Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the  north -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- even unto Nebuchadrezzar  king of Babylon, My servant, and have brought them in against  this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these  nations round about, and have devoted them, and appointed them  for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for wastes  age-during.