The Book of Jeremiah (WEB)
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 spoke to 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 to
this day, these twenty-three years, the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to you,
rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened. 25:4Yahweh has sent to you all his servants
the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to
hear,) 25:5saying, Return you now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and
dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even
forevermore; 25:6and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don't provoke me
to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm. 25:7Yet you have not listened to
me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own
hurt. 25:8Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Because you have not heard my words, 25:9behold, I
will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and I will send to Nebuchadrezzar
the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants
of it, 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. 25:11This whole land shall be a desolation,
and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 25:12It shall
happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that
nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate
forever. 25:13I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that
is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. 25:14For many nations
and great kings shall make bondservants 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 says Yahweh, the
God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to
whom I send you, to drink it. 25:16They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of
the sword that I will send among them. 25:17Then took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the
nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me: 25:18to wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and
the kings of it, and the princes of it, 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 mixed 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 who have the corners of
their hair cut off; 25:24and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who 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 on the surface of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
25:27You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Drink you, and be drunken,
and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. 25:28It
shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then shall you tell them, Thus says
Yahweh of Hosts: You shall surely drink. 25:29For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is
called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will
call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Hosts. 25:30Therefore prophesy
you against them all these words, and tell them, Yahweh 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 those
who tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. 25:31A noise shall come even to the end
of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all
flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, says Yahweh. 25:32Thus says Yahweh 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. 25:33The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the
earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried;
they shall be dung on the surface of the ground. 25:34Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in
ashes, you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully
come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel. 25:35The 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 Yahweh lays waste their pasture. 25:37The peaceable folds are brought to
silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh. 25:38He has 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.
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