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 , 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 .)"' * For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me : "Take this wine cup of fury from My hand , and cause all the nations , to whom I send you , to drink it . * And they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them ." * Then I took the cup from the LORD 's hand , and made all the nations drink , to whom the LORD had sent me : * Jerusalem and the cities of Judah , its kings and its princes , to make them a desolation , an astonishment , a hissing , and a curse , as it is this day ; * Pharaoh king of Egypt , his servants , his princes , and all his people ; * all the mixed multitude , all the kings of the land of Uz , all the kings of the land of the Philistines (namely , Ashkelon , Gaza , Ekron , and the remnant of Ashdod ); * Edom , Moab , and the people of Ammon ; * all the kings of Tyre , all the kings of Sidon , and the kings of the coastlands which are across the sea ; * Dedan , Tema , Buz , and all who are in the farthest corners ; * all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed multitude who dwell in the desert ; * all the kings of Zimri , all the kings of Elam , and all the kings of the Medes ; * all the kings of the north , far and near , one with another ; and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth . Also the king of Sheshach shall drink after them . * "Therefore you shall say to them , "Thus says the LORD of hosts , the God of Israel : "Drink , be drunk , and vomit ! Fall and rise no more , because of the sword which I will send among you ."' * And it shall be , if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink , then you shall say to them , "Thus says the LORD of hosts : "You shall certainly drink ! * For behold , I begin to bring calamity on 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 the LORD of hosts .' * "Therefore prophesy against them all these words , and say to them : "The LORD will roar from on high , And utter His voice from His holy habitation ; He will roar mightily against His fold . He will give a shout , as those who tread the grapes , Against all the inhabitants of the earth . * A noise will come to the ends of the earth -- For the LORD has a controversy with the nations ; He will plead His case with all flesh . He will give those who are wicked to the sword ,' says the LORD ." * Thus says the LORD of hosts : "Behold , disaster shall go forth From nation to nation , And a great whirlwind shall be raised up From the farthest parts of the earth . * "And at that day the slain of the LORD shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth . They shall not be lamented , or gathered , or buried ; they shall become refuse on the ground . * "Wail , shepherds , and cry ! Roll about in the ashes , You leaders of the flock ! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled ; You shall fall like a precious vessel . * And the shepherds will have no way to flee , Nor the leaders of the flock to escape . * A voice of the cry of the shepherds , And a wailing of the leaders to the flock will be heard . For the LORD has plundered their pasture , * And the peaceful dwellings are cut down Because of the fierce anger of the LORD . * He has left His lair like the lion ; For their land is desolate Because of the fierceness of the Oppressor , And because of His fierce anger ."

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