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 Nebuchadnezzar 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 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will
bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against
all these nations around; 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 its kings, and its
princes, 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 you shall 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 storm
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 its inhabitants; 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
relented of the disaster 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 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 command
to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel, You shall 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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