Jeremiah:25:1-14

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* The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah , in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah , king of Judah (which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ), * which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem , saying : * "From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon , king of Judah , even to this day , this is the twenty-third year in which the word of the LORD has come to me ; and I have spoken to you , rising early and speaking , but you have not listened . * And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets , rising early and sending them , but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear . * They said , "Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings , and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever . * Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them , and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands ; and I will not harm you .' * Yet you have not listened to Me ," says the LORD , "that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt . * "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts : "Because you have not heard My words , * behold , I will send and take all the families of the north ,' says the LORD , "and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon , My servant , and will bring them against this land , against its inhabitants , and against these nations all around , and will utterly destroy them , and make them an astonishment , a hissing , and perpetual desolations . * 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 lamp . * And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment , and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years . * "Then it will come to pass , when seventy years are completed , that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation , the land of the Chaldeans , for their iniquity ,' says the LORD ; "and I will make it a perpetual desolation . * So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it , all that is written in this book , which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations . * (For many nations and great kings shall be served by them also ; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands .)"'

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