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 (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar 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 , these three and twenty years , the word of Yahweh has come to me , and I have spoken to you (note :){+}(:note ), rising up early and speaking ; but you {+} haven 't listened . * And Yahweh has sent all his slaves the prophets to you (note :){+}(:note ), rising up early and sending them , (but you {+} haven 't listened , nor inclined your {+} ear to hear ,) * saying , Return (note :){+}(:note ) now every one 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 ; * and don 't go after other gods to serve them , and to worship them , and don 't provoke me to anger with the work of your (note :){+}(:note ) hands ; and I will do you {+} no hurt . * Yet you (note :){+}(:note ) haven 't listened to me , says Yahweh ; that you {+} may provoke me to anger with the work of your {+} hands to your {+} own hurt . * Therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says : Because you (note :){+}(:note ) haven 't heard my words , * look , I will send and take all the families of the north , says Yahweh , and [I will send ] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon , my slave , and will bring them against this land , and against its inhabitants , and against all these nations round about ; and I will completely destroy them , and make them an astonishment , and 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 will be a desolation , and an astonishment ; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years . * And it will come to pass , 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 . * And I 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 . * For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them , even of them ; and I will recompense them according to their deeds , and according to the work of their hands .

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