Jeremiah 25 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Prophecy of the Captivity

Jer 25:1The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon),

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Jer 25:2which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

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Jer 25:3"For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josi'ah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.

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Jer 25:4You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,

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Jer 25:5saying, 'Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and wrong doings, and dwell upon the land which the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and for ever;

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Jer 25:6do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.'

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Jer 25:7Yet you have not listened to me, says the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

Jer 25:8

Jer 25:8"Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,

Jer 25:9

Jer 25:9behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the LORD, and for Nebuchadrez'zar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

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Jer 25:10Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

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Jer 25:11This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Babylon Will Be Judged

Jer 25:12

Jer 25:12Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chalde'ans, for their iniquity, says the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.

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Jer 25:13I will bring upon that land all the words which I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.

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Jer 25:14For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."

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Jer 25:15Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.

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Jer 25:16They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword which I am sending among them."

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Jer 25:17So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it:

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Jer 25:18Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;

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Jer 25:19Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, all his people,

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Jer 25:20and all the foreign folk among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (Ash'kelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);

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Jer 25:21Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon;

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Jer 25:22all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea;

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Jer 25:23Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

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Jer 25:24all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed tribes that dwell in the desert;

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Jer 25:25all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;

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Jer 25:26all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylon shall drink.

Jer 25:27

Jer 25:27"Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I am sending among you.'

Jer 25:28

Jer 25:28"And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: You must drink!

Jer 25:29

Jer 25:29For behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.'

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Jer 25:30"You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: 'The LORD will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

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Jer 25:31The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, says the LORD.'

Jer 25:32

Jer 25:32"Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, evil is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!

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Jer 25:33"And those slain by the LORD on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.

Jer 25:34

Jer 25:34"Wail, you shepherds, and cry, and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come, and you shall fall like choice rams.

Jer 25:35

Jer 25:35No refuge will remain for the shepherds, nor escape for the lords of the flock.

Jer 25:36

Jer 25:36Hark, the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the lords of the flock! For the LORD is despoiling their pasture,

Jer 25:37

Jer 25:37and the peaceful folds are devastated, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Jer 25:38

Jer 25:38Like a lion he has left his covert, for their land has become a waste because of the sword of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger."

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Prophecy of the Captivity

Babylon Will Be Judged

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