Jeremiah 25:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Take from

Esther 3:13

Esther 7:4

Esther 8:11

Voice of mirth

Revelation 18:22

The sound

Ecclesiastes 12:2

General references

Bible References

Take from

And letters were sent by the runners into every division of the kingdom ordering the death and destruction of all Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the same day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar, and the taking of all their goods by force.

For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

In these letters the king gave authority to the Jews in every town to come together and make a fight for their lives, and to send death and destruction on the power of any people in any part of the kingdom attacking them or their children or their women, and to take their goods from them by force,

Voice of mirth

And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.

For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.

This is what the Lord has said: There will again be sounding in this place, of which you say, It is a waste, without man and without beast; even in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem which are waste and unpeopled, without man and without beast,

The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever.

And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.

And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you;

The sound

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

General references

The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem.

I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever.

And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.