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Chapter 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
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, 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. |
| 4 | 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. |
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5 | 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: |
| 6 |
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. |
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| 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. |
| 8 |
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not
heard my words, |
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9 | 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. |
| 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. |
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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
will make it perpetual desolations. |
| 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.
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| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | And they shall drink, and be
moved, 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: |
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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;
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| 19 | Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his
people; |
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| 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, |
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21 | Edom, and Moab, and the
children of Ammon, |
| 22 | And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the
kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea, |
| 23 |
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners, |
| 24 |
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell
in the desert, |
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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 |
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. |
| 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 certainly
drink. |
| 29
| 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. |
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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 upon his habitation;
he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the
inhabitants of the earth. |
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31 | 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. |
| 32 |
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. |
| 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
ground. |
| 34
| 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.
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| 35 | And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the
flock to escape. |
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36 | 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. |
| 37
| And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the
fierce anger of the LORD. |
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38 | 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. |
