Jeremiah 25

Jeremiah Chapter 25 KJV

1Jeremiah, reproving the Jews for disregarding God's messages by his prophets, 8foretelleth the seventy years' captivity, 12and the succeeding destruction of Babylon. 15Under the figure of the cup of God's fury he foresheweth the overthrow of divers nations. 34The howling of the shepherds.

1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah ¹in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake ¹unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

3 ¹From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, ²rising early and speaking; ³but ye have not hearkened.

4 And the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the ¹prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

5 They said, ¹Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto you and to your fathers ²for ever and ever:

6 And ¹go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with ²the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

7 ¹Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the Lord; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

8 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,

9 Behold, ¹I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, ²my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

10 Moreover I will ^atake from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the ¹voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, ²the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

11 And ¹this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and ²these nations shall serve the king of Babylon ³seventy years.

12 ¶ And it shall come to pass, ¹when seventy years are accomplished, that ²I will ^apunish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it ³perpetual desolations.

13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written ¹in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

14 For ¹many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: ²and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

15 ¶ For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the ¹wine cup of this fury at my hand, and ²cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

16 And they shall drink, ¹and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

17 Then ¹took I the cup at the Lord's hand, and ²made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me:

18 To wit, ¹Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, ²to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; ³as it is this day;

19 ¹Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

20 And ¹all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of ²Uz, and all the kings of the land of the ³Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

21 ¹Edom, and ²Moab, and the children of Ammon,

22 And ¹all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the ^aisles which are beyond the sea,

23 ¹Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are ^ain the utmost corners,

24 And all the kings of Arabia, and ¹all the kings of the ²mingled people that dwell in the desert,

25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of ¹Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,

26 And all the kings of ¹the 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 ²Sheshach shall drink after them.

27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; ¹Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

28 And it shall be, if they refuse to ¹take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, ²Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

29 For, lo, ¹I begin to bring evil on the city ^awhich is called by my name, and ²should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: ³for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.

30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, ¹The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from ²his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; ³he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; ¹for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord.

32 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, ¹evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

33 And ¹the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: ²they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

34 ¶ ¹Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for ^athe days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall ²like a ^bpleasant vessel.

35 And ^athe ¹shepherds shall ²have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

36 A ¹voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture.

37 And ¹the peaceable habitations are cut down ²because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is ^adesolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

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