JEREMIAH 25
1 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;
2 the which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even unto this day, these three and twenty years, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
4 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear;
5 saying, Return ye 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, from of old and even for evermore:
6 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.
7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.
8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and I will send unto 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 an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
10 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 candle.
11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.
13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them, even of them: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
15 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, 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.
16 And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
17 Then took I the cup at the LORD’S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
18 to wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
20 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 Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair polled;
24 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the wilderness;
25 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
26 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.
27 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink 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 take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Ye shall surely drink.
29 For, lo, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for 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, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar against his fold; he 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 end of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, saith the LORD.
32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
33 And the slain of the LORD 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.
34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter are fully come, and I will break you in pieces, and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the howling of the principal of the flock! for the LORD layeth waste their pasture.
37 And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword, and because of his fierce anger.
Cross-references
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- 1Jer 36:1, 2Ki 24:1–2, Dan 1:1, Jer 46:2
- 2Jer 18:11, Psa 49:1–2, Jer 35:13, Jer 26:2, Mrk 7:14–15, Jer 19:14–15, Jer 38:1–2
- 3Jer 11:7, Jer 1:2, Jer 26:5, Jer 7:13, 2Ch 34:8, 2Ch 34:3, Jer 29:19, 2Ti 4:2
- 4Jer 25:3, Jer 26:5, Zec 7:11–12, Jer 44:4–5, Heb 12:25, Jer 35:14–15, Jer 16:12, Act 7:51–52
- 5Jer 7:7, Isa 55:6–7, Jer 17:25, Gen 17:8, Jer 18:11, Jon 3:8–10, Jer 35:15, Zec 1:4–5
- 6Deu 8:19, 1Ki 14:22, Deu 6:14, Jer 35:15, Jer 7:6, 2Ki 17:35, Jos 24:20, 1Ki 11:4–10
- 72Ki 21:15, Pro 8:36, Deu 32:21, 2Ki 17:17, Jer 7:18–19, Jer 32:30–33, Neh 9:26
- 9Jer 18:16, Isa 13:3, Jer 1:15, Ezk 29:18–20, Hab 1:6–10, Jer 43:10, Jer 6:22–26, Isa 44:28–45:1
- 10Jer 7:34, Ezk 26:13, Jer 16:9, Rev 18:22–23, Jer 33:10–11, Est 3:13, Hos 2:11, Ecc 12:2–4
- 11Dan 9:2, Zec 1:12, 2Ch 36:21–22, Zec 7:5, Jer 25:12, Jer 4:27, Jer 12:11–12, Isa 23:15–17
- 12Isa 13:19, Dan 9:2, Jer 29:10, Jer 51:62–64, Isa 14:23, Jer 50:1–46, Isa 46:1–47:1, Isa 15:6
- 13Jer 1:10, Jer 1:5, Dan 5:28, Rev 10:11, Dan 5:31
- 14Jer 51:6, Jer 50:9, Jer 27:7, Jer 50:41, Isa 66:6, Isa 45:1–3, Isa 14:2, Jer 51:20–28
- 15Psa 75:8, Isa 51:17, Job 21:20, Rev 14:10, Jer 51:7, Isa 51:22, Jer 13:12–14, Rev 14:19
- 16Jer 51:7, Nam 3:11, Rev 14:10, Lam 4:21, Jer 25:27, Rev 18:3, Jer 51:39, Rev 16:9–11
- 17Jer 1:10, Jer 25:28, Ezk 43:3, Jer 46:1–28, Jer 27:3
- 18Psa 60:3, Jer 24:9, Jer 44:22, Isa 51:17–22, Ezr 9:7, Amo 3:2, 1Ki 8:24, Dan 9:12
- 19Jer 46:13–26, Jer 46:2, Nam 3:8–10, Ezk 29:1–21, Jer 43:9–11
- 20Job 1:1, Jer 50:37, Lam 4:21, Isa 20:1, Ezk 30:5, Jer 25:24, Jer 47:1–7, Exo 12:38
- 21Jer 48:1–49:22, Jer 9:26, Psa 137:7, Jer 27:3, Isa 63:1–6, Ezk 25:2–14, Oba 1:18, Isa 34:1–17
- 22Jer 47:4, Amo 1:3–5, Ezk 29:18, Zec 9:1–4, Jer 49:23–27, Jer 31:10, Jer 27:3, Ezk 26:1–21
- 23Jer 9:26, Jer 49:32, Jer 49:8, Gen 22:21, Job 6:19, 1Ch 1:30, Gen 10:7, Ezk 27:20
- 242Ch 9:14, Jer 25:20, Jer 50:37, Ezk 30:5, Gen 25:2–4, Gen 37:25–28, 1Ki 10:15, Gen 25:12–16
- 25Isa 11:11, Gen 10:22, Jer 51:11, Jer 49:34–39, Isa 13:17, Jer 51:28, Gen 14:1, Ezk 32:24
- 26Jer 51:41, Jer 25:9, Dan 5:1–31, Rev 18:1–24, Jer 25:12, Isa 47:1–15, Jer 50:1–46, Isa 13:1–14
- 27Hab 2:16, Jer 25:16, Isa 51:21, Ezk 21:4–5, Lam 4:21, Isa 63:6, Jer 46:10, Deu 32:42
- 28Job 34:33, Jer 4:28, Act 4:28, Eph 1:11, Dan 4:35, Jer 49:12, Isa 46:10–11, Isa 14:24–27
- 29Ezk 38:21, Pro 11:31, 1Pe 4:17, 1Ki 8:43, Jer 49:12, Oba 1:16, Ezk 9:6, Dan 9:18–19
- 30Amo 1:2, Jol 3:16, Isa 42:13, Psa 78:65, Isa 16:9, Hos 13:7–8, Psa 58:5, Jol 2:11–13
- 31Hos 4:1, Jol 3:2, Isa 66:16, Mic 6:2, Ezk 20:35–36, Isa 34:8, Hos 12:2, Jer 45:5
- 32Isa 34:2, Jer 23:19, 2Ch 15:6, Jer 30:23, Isa 30:30, Zep 3:8, Luk 21:25, Isa 66:18
- 33Isa 66:16, Jer 8:2, Psa 79:3, Jer 16:4–7, Isa 5:25, Jer 13:12–14, Psa 83:10, 2Ki 9:37
- 34Jer 6:26, Jer 3:19, Ezk 34:20, Jer 48:26, Isa 33:1, Jer 19:10–12, Isa 30:14, Jer 25:23
- 35Job 11:20, Amo 2:14, Amo 9:1–3, Jer 52:24–27, Ezk 17:18, Ezk 17:15, Jer 32:4, Isa 2:12–22
- 36Jer 4:8, Jer 25:34
- 37Isa 27:10–11, Isa 32:14
- 38Jer 4:7, Hos 13:7–8, Hos 5:14, Jer 5:6, Hos 11:10, Zec 2:3, Psa 76:2, Jer 50:44
Topics in this chapter
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Ammonites, Anger, Arabia, Arabians, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Babylon, Captivity, Cup, Drunkenness, Edom, Ekron, Gaza, Government, Grape, Happiness, Impenitence, Israel, Prophecies Concerning, Jeremiah, Lamp, Lion, Mill, Nation, Nebuchadnezzar, Philistines, Prophecy, Prophets, Punishment, Repentance, Seventy, Sheshach, Sidon, Sin, Symbols and Similitudes, Tema, Tyre, Uz, War, Wicked (People), Zeal, Religious, Zimri