Jeremiah 25:10
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 candle. 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 candle.
Moreover I will take from them speaks of judgment removing ordinary life and joy, so that celebration and gladness, marriage in the voice of bridegroom and bride, daily work in the sound of millstones grinding food, and household light in the candle would cease and the land would become desolate. The judgment came because Judah refused to heed God's warnings and counsel, rejecting His word and provoking Him to anger by the work of their hands and hearts. God would use the Chaldeans in a Babylonian invasion as the instrument to chastise His disobedient people with captivity and punishment.
The desolation belongs to the prophecy of Judah's seventy years of service and captivity to Babylon. That seventy-year captivity was understood by Daniel to be nearing its end in the first year of Darius, in 538 B.C. The punishment would be in proportion to the people's intelligence and to the warnings they had despised. God had long delayed His judgments from unwillingness to humiliate His chosen people, but would then visit His displeasure upon them as a last effort to check them in their evil course.
The same pattern applies now, as God entreats erring professed believers to repent and turn from evil ways, faithfully predicting dangers and reproving sin through chosen servants and withholding retribution for a time. Yet He will not always stay His hand but will visit unrepented iniquity with righteous judgment, while modern Israel faces the same temptation to scorn reproof and hate counsel.