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Jeremiah 25 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon),
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:2 - which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:3 - "For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josi'ah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:4 - You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:5 - saying, 'Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and wrong doings, and dwell upon the land which the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and for ever;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or 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, says the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:8 - "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the LORD, and for Nebuchadrez'zar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:10 - Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Babylon Will Be Judged

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12 - Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chalde'ans, for their iniquity, says the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:13 - I will bring upon that land all the words which I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:14 - For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:16 - They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword which I am sending among them."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:17 - So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:19 - Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, all his people,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:20 - and all the foreign folk among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (Ash'kelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:21 - Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:22 - all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:23 - Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:24 - all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed tribes that dwell in the desert;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:25 - all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:26 - all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylon shall drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:27 - "Then 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 am sending among you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:28 - "And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: You must drink!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - For behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:30 - "You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: 'The LORD will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:31 - The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, says the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:32 - "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, evil is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:33 - "And those slain by the LORD on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 - "Wail, you shepherds, and cry, and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come, and you shall fall like choice rams.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:35 - No refuge will remain for the shepherds, nor escape for the lords of the flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:36 - Hark, the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the lords of the flock! For the LORD is despoiling their pasture,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:37 - and the peaceful folds are devastated, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:38 - Like a lion he has left his covert, for their land has become a waste because of the sword of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger."
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