The Book of Jeremiah
25: 1The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the
fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (the same was the first
year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,) 25:2which Jeremiah the prophet spake
unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
25:3From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even unto
this day, these three and twenty years, the word of Jehovah hath come unto me,
and I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; but ye have not
hearkened. 25:4And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising
up early and sending them, (but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to
hear,) 25:5saying, Return ye now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of
your doings, and dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your
fathers, from of old and even for evermore; 25:6and go not after other gods to serve
them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your
hands; and I will do you no hurt. 25:7Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith
Jehovah; that ye may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your
own hurt. 25:8Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not heard my
words, 25:9behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah,
and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will
bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all
these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an
astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 25:10Moreover 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 lamp. 25:11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 25:12And it shall
come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of
Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the
Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever. 25:13And I will bring upon that land
all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this
book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. 25:14For many nations
and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will
recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their
hands. 25:15For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me: take this cup of the
wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink
it. 25:16And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword
that I will send among them. 25:17Then took I the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made
all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me: 25:18to wit, Jerusalem, and
the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an
astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; 25:19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his
servants, and his princes, and all his people; 25:20and all the mingled people, and all
the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon,
and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; 25:21Edom, and Moab, and the
children of Ammon; 25:22and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and
the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea; 25:23Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and
all that have the corners of their hair cut off; 25:24and all the kings of Arabia, and all
the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the wilderness; 25:25and all the kings
of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; 25:26and all the
kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the
world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink
after them. 25:27And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because
of the sword which I will send among you. 25:28And it shall be, if they refuse to take
the cup at thy hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts: Ye shall surely drink. 25:29For, lo, I begin to work evil at the city which is
called by my name; and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be
unpunished; for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith
Jehovah of hosts. 25:30Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and
say unto them, Jehovah will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy
habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; he will give a shout, as they that
tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. 25:31A noise shall come
even to the end of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations; he
will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the
sword, saith Jehovah. 25:32Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth
from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost
parts of the earth. 25:33And the slain of Jehovah shall be at that day from one end of
the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither
gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the face of the ground. 25:34Wail, ye
shepherds, and cry; and wallow in ashes, ye principal of the flock; for the days of
your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and ye shall fall like a
goodly vessel. 25:35And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of
the flock to escape. 25:36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the
principal of the flock! for Jehovah layeth waste their pasture. 25:37And the
peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
25:38He hath left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment
because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword, and because of his fierce
anger.