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Jeremiah 25 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Prophecy of the Captivity

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:2 - the word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:3 - “From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, [fn]these twenty-three years the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:4 - “And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:5 - saying, ‘Turn now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and live on the land which the LORD has given to you and your forefathers forever and ever;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - and do not follow other gods to [fn]serve them and to [fn]worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, then I will do you no harm.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:7 - “Yet you have not listened to Me,” declares the LORD, “in order to provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:8 -

“Therefore this is what the LORD of armies says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will [fn]completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and [fn]hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:10 - ‘Moreover, I will eliminate from them the voice of jubilation and the voice of joy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - ‘This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Babylon Will Be Judged

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12 -

‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the LORD, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:13 - ‘I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:14 - ‘([fn]For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 -

For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and give it to all the nations to whom I send you, to drink from it.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:16 - “Then they will drink and loudly vomit and act insanely because of the sword that I am going to send among them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:17 -

So I took the cup from the LORD’S hand and gave it to all the nations to whom the LORD sent me, to drink from it:

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - To Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, [fn]hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:19 - To Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:20 - and to all the foreign [fn]people, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (that is, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:21 - To Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:22 - and to all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:23 - and to Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who trim the corners of their hair;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:24 - and to all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign [fn]people who live in the desert;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:25 - and to all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:26 - and to all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the earth which are on the face of the ground; and the king of [fn]Sheshach shall drink it after them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:27 -

“And you shall say to them, ‘This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up, because of the sword which I am sending among you.”’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:28 - “And if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘This is what the LORD of armies says: “You shall certainly drink!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - “For behold, I am beginning to inflict disaster on this city which is called by My name, so should you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the LORD of armies.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:30 -

“Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them,

‘The LORD will roar from on high

And raise His voice from His holy dwelling;

He will roar forcefully against His [fn]fold.

He will shout like those who tread the grapes,

Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:31 -

‘A clamor has come to the end of the earth,

Because the LORD has a controversy with the nations.

He is entering into judgment with [fn]humanity;

As for the wicked, He has turned them over to the sword,’ declares the LORD.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:32 -

This is what the LORD of armies says:

“Behold, evil is going out

From nation to nation,

And a great storm is being stirred up

From the remotest parts of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:33 -

“Those put to death by the LORD on that day will be from one end of the earth to the [fn]other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 -

“Wail, you shepherds, and cry out;

Wallow in the dust, you masters of the flock;

For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions [fn]have come,

And you will fall like a precious vessel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:35 -

[fn]There will be no sanctuary for the shepherds,

Nor escape for the masters of the flock.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:36 -

Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds,

And the wailing of the masters of the flock!

For the LORD is destroying their pasture,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:37 -

And the peaceful grazing places are devastated

Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 -

“He has left His hiding place like the lion;

For their land has become a horror

Because of the fierceness of the [fn]oppressing sword

And because of His fierce anger.”

NASB20 Footnotes
Lit this
Or worship
Or bow down to
Or put them under the ban
Or whistling
Or For they have served many nations and great kings
Or whistling
Or mercenaries
Or mercenaries
Cryptic name for Babylon
Or pasture; i.e., a ref to His people
Lit all flesh
Lit other end of the earth
Lit are full
Lit Sanctuary will perish from
Or oppressor
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