Jeremiah 25
25In the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, I received a message from the LORD concerning all the people of Judah. (This was the first year that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylonia.)H1697H3414H5971H3063H7243H8141H3079H1121H2977H4428H3063H7224H8141H5019H4428H8942I said to all the people of Judah and of Jerusalem,H3414H5030H1696H5971H3063H3427H3389H5593"For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah until this very day, the LORD has spoken to me, and I have never failed to tell you what he said. But you have paid no attention.H7969H6240H8141H2977H1121H526H4428H3063H3117H7969H6242H8141H1697H3068H1696H7925H1696H80854You would not listen or pay attention, even though the LORD has continued to send you his servants the prophets.H3068H7971H5650H5030H7925H7971H8085H5186H241H80855They told you to turn from your wicked way of life and from the evil things you are doing, so that you could go on living in the land that the LORD gave you and your ancestors as a permanent possession.H559H7725H376H7451H1870H7455H4611H3427H127H3068H5414H1H5704H5769H57696They told you not to worship and serve other gods and not to make the LORD angry by worshiping the idols you had made. If you had obeyed the LORD, then he would not have punished you.H3212H310H312H430H5647H7812H3707H4639H3027H74897But the LORD himself says that you refused to listen to him. Instead, you made him angry with your idols and have brought his punishment on yourselves.H8085H5002H3068H3707H4639H3027H74518"So then, because you would not listen to him, the LORD Almighty says,H559H3068H6635H8085H16979'I am going to send for all the peoples from the north and for my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I am going to bring them to fight against Judah and its inhabitants and against all the neighboring nations. I am going to destroy this nation and its neighbors and leave them in ruins forever, a terrible and shocking sight. I, the LORD, have spoken.H7971H3947H4940H6828H5002H3068H5019H4428H894H5650H935H776H3427H1471H5439H2763H7760H8047H8322H5769H272310I will silence their shouts of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. They will have no oil for their lamps, and there will be no more grain.H6H6963H8342H6963H8057H6963H2860H6963H3618H6963H7347H216H521611This whole land will be left in ruins and will be a shocking sight, and the neighboring nations will serve the king of Babylonia for seventy years.H776H2723H8047H1471H5647H4428H894H7657H814112After that I will punish Babylonia and its king for their sin. I will destroy that country and leave it in ruins forever.H7657H8141H4390H6485H4428H894H1471H5002H3068H5771H776H3778H7760H5769H807713I will punish Babylonia with all the disasters that I threatened to bring on the nations when I spoke through Jeremiah - all the disasters recorded in this book.H935H776H1697H1696H3789H5612H3414H5012H147114I will pay the Babylonians back for what they have done, and many nations and great kings will make slaves of them.' "H7227H1471H1419H4428H5647H7999H6467H4639H302715The LORD, the God of Israel, said to me, "Here is a wine cup filled with my anger. Take it to all the nations to whom I send you, and make them drink from it.H559H3068H430H3478H3947H3196H3563H2534H3027H1471H7971H824816When they drink from it, they will stagger and go out of their minds because of the war I am sending against them."H8354H1607H1984H6440H2719H797117So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, gave it to all the nations to whom the LORD had sent me, and made them drink from it.H3947H3563H3068H3027H1471H8248H3068H797118Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah, together with its kings and leaders, were made to drink from it, so that they would become a desert, a terrible and shocking sight, and so that people would use their name as a curse - as they still do.H3389H5892H3063H4428H8269H5414H2723H8047H8322H7045H311719Here is the list of all the others who had to drink from the cup:H6547H4428H4714H5650H8269H597120the king of Egypt, his officials and leaders; all the Egyptians and all the foreigners in Egypt; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the Philistine cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what remains of Ashdod;H6153H4428H776H5780H4428H776H6430H831H5804H6138H7611H79521all the people of Edom, Moab, and Ammon;H123H4124H1121H598322all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; all the kings of the Mediterranean lands;H4428H6865H4428H6721H4428H339H5676H322023the cities of Dedan, Tema, and Buz; all the people who cut their hair short;H1719H8485H938H7112H628524all the kings of Arabia; all the kings of the desert tribes;H4428H6152H4428H6153H7931H405725all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;H4428H2174H4428H5867H4428H407426all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another. Every nation on the face of the earth had to drink from it. Last of all, the king of Babylonia will drink from it.H4428H6828H7350H7138H376H251H4467H776H6440H127H4428H8347H8354H31027Then the LORD said to me, "Tell the people that I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, am commanding them to drink until they are drunk and vomit, until they fall down and cannot get up, because of the war that I am sending against them.H559H559H3068H6635H430H3478H8354H7937H7006H5307H6965H6440H2719H797128And if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink from it, then tell them that the LORD Almighty has said that they will still have to drink from it.H3985H3947H3563H3027H8354H559H559H3068H6635H8354H835429I will begin my work of destruction in my own city. Do they think they will go unpunished? No, they will be punished, for I am going to send war on all the people on earth. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken.H2490H7489H5892H7121H8034H5352H5352H5352H7121H2719H3427H776H5002H3068H663530"You, Jeremiah, must proclaim everything I have said. You must tell these people, 'The LORD will roar from heaven and thunder from the heights of heaven. He will roar against his people; he will shout like a man treading grapes. Everyone on earth will hear him,H5012H1697H559H3068H7580H4791H5414H6963H6944H4583H7580H7580H5116H6030H1959H1869H3427H77631and the sound will echo to the ends of the earth. The LORD has a case against the nations. He will bring all people to trial and put the wicked to death. The LORD has spoken.' "H7588H935H7097H776H3068H7379H1471H8199H1320H5414H7563H2719H5002H306832The LORD Almighty says that disaster is coming on one nation after another, and a great storm is gathering at the far ends of the earth.H559H3068H6635H7451H3318H1471H1471H1419H5591H5782H3411H77633On that day the bodies of those whom the LORD has killed will lie scattered from one end of the earth to the other. No one will mourn for them, and they will not be taken away and buried. They will lie on the ground like piles of manure.H2491H3068H3117H7097H776H7097H776H5594H622H6912H1828H6440H12734Cry, you leaders, you shepherds of my people, cry out loud! Mourn and roll in the dust. The time has come for you to be slaughtered, and you will be butchered like rams.H3213H7462H2199H6428H117H6629H3117H2873H8600H4390H5307H2532H362735There will be no way for you to escape.H7462H4498H6H117H6629H641336You moan and cry out in distressH6963H6818H7462H3215H117H6629H3068H7703H483037because the LORD in his anger has destroyed your nation and left your peaceful country in ruins.H7965H4999H1826H6440H2740H639H306838The LORD has abandoned his people like a lion that leaves its cave. The horrors of war and the LORD's fierce anger have turned the country into a desert.H5800H5520H3715H776H8047H6440H2740H3238H6440H2740H639
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