Jeremiah 25

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Jeremiah 25

The Seventy-Year Exile

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1} This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim^(A) son of Josiah, king of Judah (which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon). ^{Tools
2} The prophet Jeremiah spoke concerning all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem as follows: ^{Tools
3} “From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon,^(B) king of Judah, until this very day—23 years—the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you time and time again,^(a)^(C) but you have not obeyed. ^{Tools
4} The Lord sent all His servants the prophets to you time and time again,^(b) but you have not obeyed or even paid attention.^(c)^(D) ^{Tools
5} He announced, ‘Turn, each of you, from your^(d) evil way of life and from your evil deeds.^(E) Live in the land the Lord gave to you and your ancestors long ago and forever. ^{Tools
6} Do not follow other gods to serve them and to worship them,^(F) and do not provoke Me to anger by the work of your hands.^(G) Then I will do you no harm.

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7} “‘But you would not obey Me’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘in order that you might provoke Me to anger by the work of your hands and bring disaster on yourselves.’

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8} “Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, ^{Tools
9} I am going to send for all the families of the north’^(H)—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘and send for My servant^(I) Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them a desolation,^(J) a derision, and ruins forever. ^{Tools
10} I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them—the voice of the groom and the bride,^(K) the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. ^{Tools
11} This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.^(L) ^{Tools
12} When the 70 years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, and I will make it a ruin forever.^(M) ^{Tools
13} I will bring on that land all My words I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. ^{Tools
14} For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds^(N) and the work of their hands.’”

The Cup of God’s Wrath

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15} This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and make all the nations I am sending you to, drink from it.^(O) ^{Tools
16} They will drink, stagger,^(e) and go out of their minds because of the sword I am sending among them.”

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17} So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, everyone the Lord sent me to. ^{Tools
18} These included:

Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an object of scorn and cursing—as it is today;

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Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officers, his leaders, all his people,

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and all the mixed peoples;
all the kings of the land of Uz;
all the kings of the land of the Philistines—Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

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Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

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all the kings of Tyre,
all the kings of Sidon,
and the kings of the coastlands across the sea;

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23}

Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all those who shave their temples;^(f)^(P)

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24}

all the kings of Arabia,
and all the kings of the mixed peoples who have settled in the desert;

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25}

all the kings of Zimri,
all the kings of Elam,
and all the kings of Media;

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26}

all the kings of the north, both near and far from one another;
that is, all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth.
Finally, the king of Sheshach^(g) will drink after them.

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27} “Then you are to say to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Drink,^(Q) get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, as a result of the sword I am sending among you. ^{Tools
28} If^(h) they refuse to take the cup from you and drink, you are to say to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: You must drink! ^{Tools
29} For I am already bringing disaster on the city that bears My name,^(R) so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.^(S)

Judgment on the Whole World

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30} “As for you, you are to prophesy all these things to them, and say to them:

The Lord roars from heaven;
He raises His voice from His holy dwelling.^(T)
He roars loudly over His grazing land;
He calls out with a shout, like those who tread grapes,
against all the inhabitants of the earth.

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31}

The tumult reaches to the ends of the earth
because the Lord brings a case against^(U) the nations.
He enters into judgment with all flesh.
As for the wicked, He hands them over to the sword—
this is the Lord’s declaration.

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32} “This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Pay attention! Disaster spreads
from nation to nation.
A great storm is stirred up
from the ends of the earth.”^(V)

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33} Those slain by the Lord^(W) on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned,^(X) gathered, or buried. They will be like manure on the surface of the ground.

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34}

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out.
Roll in the dust,⁽ⁱ⁾^(Y) you leaders of the flock.
Because the days of your slaughter have come,
you will fall and become shattered like a precious vase.

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Flight will be impossible for the shepherds,
and escape, for the leaders of the flock.

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Hear the sound of the shepherds’ cry,
the wail of the leaders of the flock,
for the Lord is destroying their pasture.

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37}

Peaceful grazing land will become lifeless
because of the Lord’s burning anger.^(Z)

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38}

He has left His den like a lion,
for their land has become a desolation
because of the sword^(j) of the oppressor,^(AA)
because of His burning anger.

Footnotes:

a. Jeremiah 25:3: Lit you; rising early and speaking

b. Jeremiah 25:4: Lit prophets, rising early and sending

c. Jeremiah 25:4: Lit even inclined your ears

d. Jeremiah 25:5: Lit his

e. Jeremiah 25:16: Or vomit

f. Jeremiah 25:23: Or who live in distant places

g. Jeremiah 25:26: Probably a name for Babylon

h. Jeremiah 25:28: Or When

i. Jeremiah 25:34: This custom demonstrated mourning.

j. Jeremiah 25:38: Some Hb mss, LXX, Tg; other Hb mss read burning

Cross references:

A. Jeremiah 25:1: 2 Chronicles 36:4-8

B. Jeremiah 25:3: Jeremiah 1:2

C. Jeremiah 25:3: Jeremiah 11:7; Jeremiah 26:5

D. Jeremiah 25:4: Jeremiah 7:25-26

E. Jeremiah 25:5: Jeremiah 18:11; Jeremiah 35:15

F. Jeremiah 25:6: Deuteronomy 8:19; Jeremiah 13:10

G. Jeremiah 25:6: Deuteronomy 31:29; Jeremiah 44:8

H. Jeremiah 25:9: Jeremiah 1:13

I. Jeremiah 25:9: Isaiah 45:1

J. Jeremiah 25:9: Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8

K. Jeremiah 25:10: Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah 33:11

L. Jeremiah 25:11: 2 Chronicles 36:21; Jeremiah 29:10; Daniel 9:2

M. Jeremiah 25:12: Isaiah 13:19

N. Jeremiah 25:14: Jeremiah 50:29

O. Jeremiah 25:15: Psalm 75:8; Isaiah 51:17; Jeremiah 49:12

P. Jeremiah 25:23: Leviticus 19:27; Jeremiah 9:26; Jeremiah 49:32

Q. Jeremiah 25:27: Jeremiah 25:16; Habakkuk 2:16

R. Jeremiah 25:29: Daniel 9:18

S. Jeremiah 25:28: Jeremiah 49:12-13

T. Jeremiah 25:30: Deuteronomy 26:15; 2 Chronicles 30:27; Psalm 76:2; Amos 1:2; Joel 3:16

U. Jeremiah 25:31: Hosea 4:1; Hosea 12:3; Micah 6:2

V. Jeremiah 25:32: Jeremiah 23:19; Jeremiah 30:23

W. Jeremiah 25:33: Isaiah 66:16

X. Jeremiah 25:33: Jeremiah 16:4

Y. Jeremiah 25:34: Job 2:8; Job 2:12; Jeremiah 6:26; Ezekiel 27:30

Z. Jeremiah 25:37: Numbers 32:14; 2 Chronicles 28:11

AA. Jeremiah 25:38: Jeremiah 46:16