Jeremiah 25
25The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Josiah's son Jehoiakim, king of Judah. (This was also the first year of the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.)H1697H3414H5971H3063H7243H8141H3079H1121H2977H4428H3063H7224H8141H5019H4428H8942This is what Jeremiah the prophet said to all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem:H3414H5030H1696H5971H3063H3427H3389H5593"From the thirteenth year of the reign of Ammon's son Josiah, the king of Judah, until the present time, for 23 years the word of the Lord has come to me, and I've spoken to you again and again, but you haven't listened.H7969H6240H8141H2977H1121H526H4428H3063H3117H7969H6242H8141H1697H3068H1696H7925H1696H80854Again and again, the Lord sent all his servants, the prophets, to you, but you wouldn't listen or even turn your ears in my direction to hear.H3068H7971H5650H5030H7925H7971H8085H5186H241H80855They said, 'Turn, each one of you, from your evil habits and evil deeds, and live in the land that the Lord gave to you and your ancestors forever and ever.H559H7725H376H7451H1870H7455H4611H3427H127H3068H5414H1H5704H5769H57696Don't follow other gods to serve and worship them. Don't provoke me with the idols you make with your hands, and I won't bring disaster on you.'H3212H310H312H430H5647H7812H3707H4639H3027H74897But you didn't listen to me," declares the Lord, "so as to provoke me with the idols you make with your hands to your own harm.3H8085H5002H3068H3707H4639H3027H74518"Therefore, this is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: 'Because you haven't listened to my word,H559H3068H6635H8085H16979I'm now sending for all the tribes from the north, declares the Lord, and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I'll bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I'll utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting desolation.H7971H3947H4940H6828H5002H3068H5019H4428H894H5650H935H776H3427H1471H5439H2763H7760H8047H8322H5769H272310I'll destroy the sounds of gladness and rejoicing from them, the sounds of the bridegroom and the bride, the sound of the hand mill and also the light of the lamp.H6H6963H8342H6963H8057H6963H2860H6963H3618H6963H7347H216H521611This entire land will be a desolation and a waste, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.H776H2723H8047H1471H5647H4428H894H7657H814112'Then when the seventy years have passed, I'll judge the king of Babylon and that nation, declares the Lord, I'll judge the land of the Chaldeans for their iniquity and I'll make it a desolation forever.H7657H8141H4390H6485H4428H894H1471H5002H3068H5771H776H3778H7760H5769H807713I'll bring on that land all the things I spoke against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied about the nations.H935H776H1697H1696H3789H5612H3414H5012H147114Indeed many nations and great kings will make slaves even of them, and I'll repay them according to their deeds, according to what they have done.'"H7227H1471H1419H4428H5647H7999H6467H4639H302715For this is what the Lord God of Israel says to me, "Take this cup of the wine of burning anger from my hand and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.H559H3068H430H3478H3947H3196H3563H2534H3027H1471H7971H824816They'll drink, stagger, and act like madmen because of the sword I'm sending among them."H8354H1607H1984H6440H2719H797117So I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and I made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it:H3947H3563H3068H3027H1471H8248H3068H797118Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, its kings and officials to make them into a ruin, an object of horror and scorn, and a curse, as it is this day;H3389H5892H3063H4428H8269H5414H2723H8047H8322H7045H311719Pharaoh, king of Egypt, his officials, his princes, and all his people;H6547H4428H4714H5650H8269H597120all the various people; all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what remains of Ashdod;H6153H4428H776H5780H4428H776H6430H831H5804H6138H7611H79521Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon;H123H4124H1121H598322all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and all the kings of the coast lands that are beyond the sea;H4428H6865H4428H6721H4428H339H5676H322023Dedan, Tema, Buz, and those who shave the corners of their beards;H1719H8485H938H7112H628524all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the various people who live in the desert;H4428H6152H4428H6153H7931H405725all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;H4428H2174H4428H5867H4428H407426all the kings of the north near and far, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. The king of Sheshak will drink after all the others.H4428H6828H7350H7138H376H251H4467H776H6440H127H4428H8347H8354H31027"You are to say to them, 'This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Drink, get drunk, and vomit! Fall down and don't get up because of the sword I'm sending among you."'H559H559H3068H6635H430H3478H8354H7937H7006H5307H6965H6440H2719H797128And if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink it, say to them, 'This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: "You will surely drink it!H3985H3947H3563H3027H8354H559H559H3068H6635H8354H835429Look, I'm beginning to bring disaster on the city that is called by my name, and do you actually think you will avoid punishment?You won't avoid punishment because I'm summoning the sword against all those who live in the land," declares the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.'H2490H7489H5892H7121H8034H5352H5352H5352H7121H2719H3427H776H5002H3068H663530You are to prophesy all these things against them, and you are to say to them, 'The Lord roars from his high place, from his holy dwelling he lifts his voice. He roars loudly against his flock, and against all who live on the earth; he shouts like those treading grapes.H5012H1697H559H3068H7580H4791H5414H6963H6944H4583H7580H7580H5116H6030H1959H1869H3427H77631A tumult reaches to the ends of the earth because the Lord is bringing an indictment against the nations. He judges all flesh. He has given the wicked over to the sword,' declares the Lord."H7588H935H7097H776H3068H7379H1471H8199H1320H5414H7563H2719H5002H306832This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: "Look, disaster is going from nation to nation, a great storm is being stirred up from the most distant parts of the earth."H559H3068H6635H7451H3318H1471H1471H1419H5591H5782H3411H77633Those slain by the Lord on that day will extend from one end of the earth to the other. They won't be mourned for or gathered up or buried. They'll be like dung on the surface of the ground.H2491H3068H3117H7097H776H7097H776H5594H622H6912H1828H6440H12734"Scream, you shepherds! Cry out! Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock! Indeed, the time for your slaughter and your dispersion has arrived, and you will break like a choice vessel.H3213H7462H2199H6428H117H6629H3117H2873H8600H4390H5307H2532H362735Flight will be impossible for the shepherds, as will be escape for the leaders of the flock.H7462H4498H6H117H6629H641336A sound - it's the cry of the shepherds and the scream of the leaders of the flock?because the Lord is destroying their pastures.H6963H6818H7462H3215H117H6629H3068H7703H483037The peaceful meadows are silent because of the Lord's fierce anger.H7965H4999H1826H6440H2740H639H306838Like a lion, he has left his den. Indeed, their land has become a waste because of the anger of the oppressor and because of the Lord's fierce anger."H5800H5520H3715H776H8047H6440H2740H3238H6440H2740H639
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