Jeremiah:25

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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 , the king of Judah (that is , the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ), * which Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem , saying : * From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon , the 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 early and speaking ; but ye have not hearkened . * And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets , rising early and sending ; but ye have not hearkened , nor inclined your ear to hear , * when they said , Turn again now every one from his evil way , and from the wickedness of your doings , and dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers from of old even for ever . * And 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 . * But ye have not hearkened unto me , saith Jehovah ; that ye might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands , to your own hurt . * Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts : Because ye have not listened to my words , * behold , I will send and take all the families of the north , saith Jehovah , and [I will send ] to 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 wastes . * And I will cause to perish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of joy , 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 become a waste , an astonishment ; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years . * And it shall come to pass , when seventy years are accomplished , [that ] I will visit on the king of Babylon and on that nation , saith Jehovah , their iniquity , and on the land of the Chaldeans , and I will make it perpetual desolations . * And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it , all that is written in this book , which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations . * For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also ; and I will recompense them according to their deeds , and according to the work of their hands . * For thus hath Jehovah the God of Israel said unto me : Take the cup of the wine of this fury at my hand , and cause all the nations to whom I send thee to drink it . * And they shall drink , and reel to and fro , and be mad , because of the sword that I will send among them . * And I took the cup at Jehovah 's hand , and made all the nations to drink , to whom Jehovah had sent me : * Jerusalem , and the cities of Judah , and the kings thereof , and the princes thereof , to make them a waste , an astonishment , a hissing , and a curse , as it is this day ; * Pharaoh king of Egypt , and his servants , and his princes , and all his people ; * and all the mingled people , and all the kings of the land of Uz , and all the kings of the land of the Philistines , and Ashkelon , and Gazah , and Ekron , and the remnant of Ashdod ; * Edom , and Moab , and the children of Ammon ; * and all the kings of Tyre , and all the kings of Zidon , and the kings of the isles that are beyond the sea ; * Dedan , and Tema , and Buz , and all that have the corners [of their beard ] cut off ; * and all the kings of Arabia , and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert ; * and all the kings of Zimri , and all the kings of Elam , and all the kings of the Medes ; * and 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 . * And thou shalt say unto them , Thus saith Jehovah of hosts , the God of Israel : Drink , and be drunken , and vomit , and fall , and rise no more , because of the sword that I will send among you . * And it shall be , if they refuse to take the cup from thy hand to drink , then shalt thou say unto them , Thus saith Jehovah of hosts : Ye shall certainly drink . * For behold , I begin to bring evil on the city that is called by my name , and should ye be altogether unpunished ? Ye shall not be unpunished ; for I call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth , saith Jehovah of hosts . * And thou , prophesy unto 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 upon his dwelling-place , he will give a shout , as they that tread [the vintage ], against all the inhabitants of the earth . * The noise shall come to the end of the earth : for Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations , he entereth into judgment with all flesh ; as for the wicked , he will give them up to the sword , saith Jehovah . * Thus saith Jehovah of hosts : Behold , evil shall go forth from nation to nation , and a great storm shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth . * And 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 . * Howl , ye shepherds , and cry ; and wallow yourselves [in the dust ], noble ones of the flock : for the days of your slaughter are accomplished , and I will disperse you ; and ye shall fall like a precious vessel . * And refuge shall perish from the shepherds , and escape from the noble ones of the flock . * There shall be a voice of the cry of the shepherds , and a howling of the noble ones of the flock : for Jehovah layeth waste their pasture ; * and the peaceable enclosures shall be desolated , because of the fierce anger of Jehovah . * He hath forsaken his covert as a young lion ; for their land is a desolation because of the fierceness of the oppressor , and because of his fierce anger .

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