Jeremiah 25 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

The word that came to Jeremiah in regard to all the people of Judah in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

“Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,

‘Then when seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans (Babylonia),’ says the LORD, ‘for their wickedness, and will make the land [of the Chaldeans] a perpetual waste.

For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to me, “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

Then I (Jeremiah) took the cup from the LORD’S hand and made all the nations to whom the LORD had sent me drink it:

“Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Drink, be drunk, vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you.”’

“Therefore prophesy all these words against them and say to them:

‘The LORD will roar from on high

And utter His voice from His holy dwelling;

He will roar mightily against His fold and pasture.

He will jubilantly shout like those who tread the grapes [in the wine press],

Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

‘A noise has come to the end of the earth,

For the LORD has a controversy with and an indictment against the nations.

He is entering into judgment with all mankind;

As for the wicked, He has given them to the sword,’ says the LORD.”

Thus says the LORD of hosts,

“Behold, evil is going forth

From nation to nation,

And a great whirling tempest is rising

From the remotest part of the earth.

“And those slain by the LORD on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. They will not be lamented (mourned over with expressions of grief) or gathered or buried; they will be like dung on the ground.

“Wail, you shepherds, and cry;

And roll in ashes, you masters of the flock.

For the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have come in full,

And you will fall and be broken into pieces like a choice vessel.

“The shepherds will have no way to flee,

Nor the masters of the flock any [way of] escape.

“A voice! The cry of the shepherds

And the wailing of the masters of the flock!

For the LORD is destroying their pasture,

And the peaceful folds are devastated and made silent

Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

“He has left His lair like the lion;

For their land has become a horror

Because of the fierceness of the oppressor

And because of the LORD’S fierce anger.”