Yirmeyahu, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} The word that came to Yirmeyahu concerning all the people of
Yehudah, in the fourth year of Yehoiakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of
Yehudah (the same was the first year of Nevukhadretztzar king of
Bavel,) {25:2} which Yirmeyahu the prophet spoke to all the people of
Yehudah, and to all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, saying: {25:3}
From the thirteenth year of Yoshiyahu the son of Amon, king of
Yehudah, 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 you 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 Nevukhadretztzar the
king of Bavel, 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 Bavel seventy years. {25:12} It shall happen, when seventy
years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Bavel, 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 Yirmeyahu 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 Yisra'el, 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} [to wit],
Yerushalayim, and the cities of Yehudah, 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} Par`oh king of Mitzrayim, 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 `Utz, and all the
kings of the Pelishtim, and Ashkelon, and `Aza, and `Ekron, and the
remnant of Ashdod; {25:21} Edom, and Mo'av, and the children of
`Ammon; {25:22} and all the kings of Tzor, and all the kings of
Tzidon, 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 `Arav, 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 Madai;
{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 [1>]eretz[<1]: and the king of Sheshakh shall drink after them.
{25:27} You shall tell them, Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of
Yisra'el: 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 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 [2>]eretz[<2], 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 [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the [3>]eretz[<3].
{25:31} A noise shall come even to the end of the [4>]eretz[<4]; 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 tempest shall
be raised up from the uttermost parts of the [5>]eretz[<5]. {25:33}
The slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the
[6>]eretz[<6] even to the other end of the [7>]eretz[<7]: 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
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 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 Yehoiakim the son of
Yoshiyahu, king of Yehudah, 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 Yehudah, 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 [1>]eretz[<1]. {26:7} The [2>]Kohanim[<2] and the prophets and
all the people heard Yirmeyahu speaking these words in the house of
the LORD. {26:8} It happened, when Yirmeyahu had made an end of
speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the
people, that the [3>]Kohanim[<3] 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 Yirmeyahu in the house of the LORD. {26:10}
When the princes of Yehudah 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
[4>]Kohanim[<4] 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
Yirmeyahu 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 the inhabitants of it; for of a truth the LORD
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 [5>]Kohanim[<5] 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
Zakenim of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people,
saying, {26:18} Mikhah the Morashti prophesied in the days of
Hizkiyahu king of Yehudah; and he spoke to all the people of Yehudah,
saying, Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Tziyon shall be plowed as a
field, and Yerushalayim shall become heaps, and the mountain of the
house as the high places of a forest. {26:19} Did Hizkiyahu king of
Yehudah and all Yehudah put him to death? Didn't he fear the LORD, and
entreat the favor of the LORD, and the LORD 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 the LORD, Uriyah the son of Shemayah of Kiryat-Ye`arim;
and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to
all the words of Yirmeyahu: {26:21} and when Yehoiakim the king, with
all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king
sought to put him to death; but when Uriyah heard it, he was afraid,
and fled, and went into Mitzrayim: {26:22} and Yehoiakim the king sent
men into Mitzrayim, [namely], Elnatan the son of `Akhbor, and certain
men with him, into Mitzrayim; {26:23} and they fetched forth Uriyah
out of Mitzrayim, and brought him to Yehoiakim 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 Achikam the son of Shafan was
with Yirmeyahu, 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 Yehoiakim the son of
Yoshiyahu, king of Yehudah, came this word to Yirmeyahu from the LORD,
saying, {27:2} Thus says the LORD 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 Mo'av, and to the king of the children of `Ammon, and
to the king of Tzor, and to the king of Tzidon, by the hand of the
messengers who come to Yerushalayim to Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah;
{27:4} and give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says the
LORD of Hosts, the God of Yisra'el, Thus shall you tell your masters:
{27:5} I have made the [1>]eretz[<1], the men and the animals that are
on the surface of the [2>]eretz[<2], 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 Nevukhadnetztzar the
king of Bavel, 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 Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel, and that will not put
their neck under the yoke of the king of Bavel, 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 Bavel: {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
Bavel, 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 Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah according to all these
words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Bavel,
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 Bavel? {27:14} Don't listen to the words of the prophets who
speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Bavel; 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 [3>]Kohanim[<3] 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 Bavel; for they prophesy a lie
to you. {27:17} Don't listen to them; serve the king of Bavel, 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 Yehudah, and at
Yerushalayim, don't go to Bavel. {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 Nevukhadnetztzar king of Bavel didn't take,
when he carried away captive Yekhonyah the son of Yehoiakim, king of
Yehudah, from Yerushalayim to Bavel, and all the nobles of Yehudah and
Yerushalayim; {27:21} yes, thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of
Yisra'el, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the
LORD, and in the house of the king of Yehudah, and at Yerushalayim:
{27:22} They shall be carried to Bavel, 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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Footnotes:
[1] {25:26} earth
[2] {25:29} earth
[3] {25:30} earth
[4] {25:31} earth
[5] {25:32} earth
[6] {25:33} earth
[7] {25:33} earth
[1] {26:6} earth
[2] {26:7} priests
[3] {26:8} priests
[4] {26:11} priests
[5] {26:16} priests
[1] {27:5} earth
[2] {27:5} earth
[3] {27:16} priests
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