25The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah (that was the first year of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon),H1697H3414H5971H3063H7243H8141H3079H1121H2977H4428H3063H7224H8141H5019H4428H8942which the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:H3414H5030H1696H5971H3063H3427H3389H5593For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of King Josiah son of Amon 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.H7969H6240H8141H2977H1121H526H4428H3063H3117H7969H6242H8141H1697H3068H1696H7925H1696H80854And though the LORD persistently sent you all his servants the prophets, you have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hearH3068H7971H5650H5030H7925H7971H8085H5186H241H80855when they said, "Turn now, everyone of you, from your evil way and wicked doings, and you will remain upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your ancestors from of old and forever;H559H7725H376H7451H1870H7455H4611H3427H127H3068H5414H1H5704H5769H57696do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm."H3212H310H312H430H5647H7812H3707H4639H3027H74897Yet you did not listen to me, says the LORD, and so you have provoked me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.H8085H5002H3068H3707H4639H3027H74518Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,H559H3068H6635H8085H16979I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the LORD, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an object of horror and of hissing, and an everlasting disgrace.H7971H3947H4940H6828H5002H3068H5019H4428H894H5650H935H776H3427H1471H5439H2763H7760H8047H8322H5769H272310And I will banish from them the sound of mirth and the sound of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.H6H6963H8342H6963H8057H6963H2860H6963H3618H6963H7347H216H521611This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.H776H2723H8047H1471H5647H4428H894H7657H814112Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, says the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.H7657H8141H4390H6485H4428H894H1471H5002H3068H5771H776H3778H7760H5769H807713I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.H935H776H1697H1696H3789H5612H3414H5012H147114For many nations and great kings shall make slaves of them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.H7227H1471H1419H4428H5647H7999H6467H4639H302715For thus 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.H559H3068H430H3478H3947H3196H3563H2534H3027H1471H7971H824816They shall drink and stagger and go out of their minds because of the sword that I am sending among them.H8354H1607H1984H6440H2719H797117So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it:H3947H3563H3068H3027H1471H8248H3068H797118Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, an object of hissing and of cursing, as they are today;H3389H5892H3063H4428H8269H5414H2723H8047H8322H7045H311719Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people;H6547H4428H4714H5650H8269H597120all the mixed people; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines—Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;H6153H4428H776H5780H4428H776H6430H831H5804H6138H7611H79521Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;H123H4124H1121H598322all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea;H4428H6865H4428H6721H4428H339H5676H322023Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have shaven temples;H1719H8485H938H7112H628524all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed peoples that 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, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Sheshach shall drink.H4428H6828H7350H7138H376H251H4467H776H6440H127H4428H8347H8354H31027Then you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, get drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.H559H559H3068H6635H430H3478H8354H7937H7006H5307H6965H6440H2719H797128And 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!H3985H3947H3563H3027H8354H559H559H3068H6635H8354H835429See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that is called by my name, and how can you possibly avoid punishment? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.H2490H7489H5892H7121H8034H5352H5352H5352H7121H2719H3427H776H5002H3068H663530You, 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.H5012H1697H559H3068H7580H4791H5414H6963H6944H4583H7580H7580H5116H6030H1959H1869H3427H77631The 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 guilty he will put to the sword, says the LORD.H7588H935H7097H776H3068H7379H1471H8199H1320H5414H7563H2719H5002H306832Thus says the LORD of hosts: See, disaster is spreading from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!H559H3068H6635H7451H3318H1471H1471H1419H5591H5782H3411H77633Those 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 become dung on the surface of the ground.H2491H3068H3117H7097H776H7097H776H5594H622H6912H1828H6440H12734Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter have come—and your dispersions, and you shall fall like a choice vessel.H3213H7462H2199H6428H117H6629H3117H2873H8600H4390H5307H2532H362735Flight shall fail the shepherds, and there shall be no escape for the lords of the flock.H7462H4498H6H117H6629H641336Hark! the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the lords of the flock! For the LORD is despoiling their pasture,H6963H6818H7462H3215H117H6629H3068H7703H483037and the peaceful folds are devastated, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.H7965H4999H1826H6440H2740H639H306838Like a lion he has left his covert; for their land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of his fierce anger.H5800H5520H3715H776H8047H6440H2740H3238H6440H2740H639