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 the LORD has come to me,
and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have
not listened. {25:4} The LORD 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 now everyone from
his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land
that the LORD 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 the LORD; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of
your hands to your own hurt. {25:8} Therefore thus says the LORD of
Hosts: Because you have not heard my words, {25:9} behold, I will send
and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, 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 the LORD, for their iniquity,
and the land of the Kasdim; 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD's hand, and
made all the nations to drink, to whom the LORD had sent me: {25:18}
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 beard 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 the
LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunk, vomit, 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 the LORD of Hosts: 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 the LORD of Hosts. {25:30} Therefore
prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, the LORD
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 grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. {25:31} A
noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for the LORD 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 the
LORD. {25:32} Thus says the LORD of Hosts, 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 the LORD 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 dust, 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 the LORD lays waste their pasture. {25:37} The
peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of
the LORD. {25:38} He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land
has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the
oppression, 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 the LORD, saying, {26:2} Thus says
the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak to all the
cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'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 the LORD: 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 the LORD. {26:8} It
happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD
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 the LORD, 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 the LORD. {26:10} When the princes of Judah heard these
things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD;
and they sat in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'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, the
LORD 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 the LORD your God; and the LORD
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 the LORD has sent
me to you to speak all these words in your ears. {26:16} Then the
princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets:
This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name
of the LORD 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 the LORD of
Hosts: 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 the LORD, and entreat the favor of the LORD, and the
LORD 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 the LORD, 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, 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 the LORD, saying,
{27:2} Thus says the LORD 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 the LORD of Hosts, 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD; 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 the LORD 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD: Don't listen to the words of your
prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the
LORD'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 the LORD be with them, let
them now make intercession to the LORD of Hosts, that the vessels
which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king
of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon. {27:19} For thus says
the LORD of Hosts 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 the LORD of
Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the
house of the LORD, 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 the LORD; then will I
bring them up, and restore them to this place.
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