Jeremiah 25

About Jeremiah Jeremiah calls Judah to turn back before Babylon's conquest and promises a new covenant afterward.

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, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;SelectedJeremiah 25:1Ask

The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,SelectedJeremiah 25:2Ask

From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.SelectedJeremiah 25:3Ask

And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.SelectedJeremiah 25:4Ask

They said, Turn ye again 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 for ever and ever:SelectedJeremiah 25:5Ask

And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.SelectedJeremiah 25:6Ask

Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.SelectedJeremiah 25:7Ask

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,SelectedJeremiah 25:8Ask

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and 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 will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.SelectedJeremiah 25:9Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 25:10Ask

And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.SelectedJeremiah 25:11Ask

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 will make it perpetual desolations.SelectedJeremiah 25:12Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 25:13Ask

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 works of their own hands.SelectedJeremiah 25:14Ask

For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.SelectedJeremiah 25:15Ask

And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.SelectedJeremiah 25:16Ask

Then took I the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:SelectedJeremiah 25:17Ask

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;SelectedJeremiah 25:18Ask

Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;SelectedJeremiah 25:19Ask

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 Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,SelectedJeremiah 25:20Ask

Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,SelectedJeremiah 25:21Ask

And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,SelectedJeremiah 25:22Ask

Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,SelectedJeremiah 25:23Ask

And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,SelectedJeremiah 25:24Ask

And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,SelectedJeremiah 25:25Ask

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.SelectedJeremiah 25:26Ask

Therefore 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.SelectedJeremiah 25:27Ask

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 certainly drink.SelectedJeremiah 25:28Ask

For, lo, I begin to bring evil on 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.SelectedJeremiah 25:29Ask

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 upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.SelectedJeremiah 25:30Ask

A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.SelectedJeremiah 25:31Ask

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.SelectedJeremiah 25:32Ask

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 ground.SelectedJeremiah 25:33Ask

Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.SelectedJeremiah 25:34Ask

And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.SelectedJeremiah 25:35Ask

A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.SelectedJeremiah 25:36Ask

And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.SelectedJeremiah 25:37Ask

He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.SelectedJeremiah 25:38Ask

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