Jeremiah, starting at chapter 25
{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 (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon),
{25:2} which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah,
and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: {25:3} From the
thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this
day, these twenty-three years, the word of Yahweh has come to me, and
I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not
listened. {25:4} Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets,
rising up early and sending them, (but you have not listened, nor
inclined your ear to hear), {25:5} saying, Return you now everyone
from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the
land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and
even forevermore; {25:6} and don't go after other gods to serve them
or worship them, and don't provoke me to anger with the work of your
hands; and I will do you no harm. {25:7} Yet you have not listened to
me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of
your hands to your own hurt. {25:8} Therefore thus says Yahweh of
Armies: Because you have not heard my words, {25:9} behold, I will
send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will
send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will
bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and
against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy
them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual
desolations. {25:10} 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 lamp.
{25:11} This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
{25:12} It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I
will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for
their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it
desolate forever. {25:13} I will bring on that land all my words which
I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book,
which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. {25:14} For
many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of
them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and
according to the work of their hands. {25:15} For thus says Yahweh,
the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my
hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
{25:16} They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because
of the sword that I will send among them. {25:17} Then took I the cup
at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh
had sent me: {25:18} [to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and
the kings of it, and the princes of it, to make them a desolation, an
astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; {25:19}
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his
people; {25:20} and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the
land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon,
and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; {25:21} Edom, and
Moab, and the children of Ammon; {25:22} and all the kings of Tyre,
and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond
the sea; {25:23} Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the
corners [of their hair] cut off; {25:24} and all the kings of Arabia,
and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;
{25:25} and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all
the kings of the Medes; {25:26} and all the kings of the north, far
and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which
are on the surface of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink
after them. {25:27} You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies,
the God of Israel: Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and
rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
{25:28} It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to
drink, then shall you tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: You shall
surely drink. {25:29} For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city
which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You
shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the
inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies. {25:30} Therefore
prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, Yahweh will
roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he
will mightily roar against his fold; he will give a shout, as those
who tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.
{25:31} A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh
has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with
all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, says
Yahweh. {25:32} Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, evil shall go
forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up
from the uttermost parts of the earth. {25:33} The slain of Yahweh
shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end
of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor
buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground. {25:34} Wail,
you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], you principal of the
flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are
fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel. {25:35} The
shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to
escape. {25:36} A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing
of the principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture.
{25:37} The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the
fierce anger of Yahweh. {25:38} He has left his covert, as the lion;
for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of
the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.
{26:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, came this word from Yahweh, saying, {26:2} Thus says
Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh's house, and speak to all the
cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh's house, all the
words that I command you to speak to them; don't diminish a word.
{26:3} It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil
way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them
because of the evil of their doings. {26:4} You shall tell them, Thus
says Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I
have set before you, {26:5} to listen to the words of my servants the
prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them,
but you have not listened; {26:6} then will I make this house like
Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the
earth. {26:7} The priests and the prophets and all the people heard
Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Yahweh. {26:8} It
happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh
had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the
prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You shall surely
die. {26:9} Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying,
This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate,
without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the
house of Yahweh. {26:10} When the princes of Judah heard these things,
they came up from the king's house to the house of Yahweh; and they
sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's [house]. {26:11} Then
spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the
people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied
against this city, as you have heard with your ears. {26:12} Then
spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, saying,
Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city
all the words that you have heard. {26:13} Now therefore amend your
ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God; and
Yahweh will repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you.
{26:14} But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is
good and right in your eyes. {26:15} Only know for certain that, if
you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and
on this city, and on the inhabitants of it; for of a truth Yahweh has
sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears. {26:16} Then
said the princes and all the people to the priests and to the
prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in
the name of Yahweh our God. {26:17} Then rose up certain of the elders
of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,
{26:18} Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king
of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says
Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall
become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a
forest. {26:19} Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to
death? Didn't he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and
Yahweh repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them?
Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls. {26:20} There
was also a man who prophesied in the name of Yahweh, Uriah the son of
Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and
against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah: {26:21} and
when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes,
heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah
heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt: {26:22} and
Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely], Elnathan the son of
Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt; {26:23} and they fetched
forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who
killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of
the common people. {26:24} But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan
was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the
people to put him to death.
{27:1} In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {27:2}
Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them on your
neck; {27:3} and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of
Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of
Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come
to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah; {27:4} and give them a charge
to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel, Thus shall you tell your masters: {27:5} I have made the
earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth,
by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it
seems right to me. {27:6} Now have I given all these lands into the
hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the
animals of the field also have I given him to serve him. {27:7} All
the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the
time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall
make him their bondservant. {27:8} It shall happen, that the nation
and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king
of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword,
and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed
them by his hand. {27:9} But as for you, don't you listen to your
prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your
soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You
shall not serve the king of Babylon: {27:10} for they prophesy a lie
to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you
out, and you should perish. {27:11} But the nation that shall bring
their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that
[nation] will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they
shall till it, and dwell therein. {27:12} I spoke to Zedekiah king of
Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the
yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
{27:13} Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the
nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? {27:14} Don't listen
to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not
serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you. {27:15} For
I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my
name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the
prophets who prophesy to you. {27:16} Also I spoke to the priests and
to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the
words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the
vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from
Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you. {27:17} Don't listen to them;
serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a
desolation? {27:18} But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh
be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that
the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of
the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon. {27:19} For
thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars, and concerning the
sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the
vessels that are left in this city, {27:20} which Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon didn't take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son
of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the
nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; {27:21} yes, thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the
house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at
Jerusalem: {27:22} They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall
they be, until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I
bring them up, and restore them to this place.
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