This verse is very close in wording to Jer 7.34 (where the wording of Good News Translation is not as successful as here).

From the region about Jerusalem is a possible interpretation of the Greek text here, but the word rendered from the region about is probably only a poetic variation on the similar word translated from in the expression from the cities of Judah. So Good News Translation may well be correct with “in Jerusalem.” The author surely does not wish to exclude Jerusalem at this point.

In a number of languages it will be difficult to translate I will make to cease … the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. In such cases some restructuring will be needed for this verse; for example:

• I will cause the people in the towns of Judah and the city of Jerusalem to stop laughing and celebrating. Even the bridegrooms and brides won’t rejoice. The whole land will be desolate with no people living in it.

The quotation from “the prophets” ends with this verse.

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on The Shorter Books of the Deuterocanon. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2006. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.