Prophecy of the Captivity
25 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the (A)fourth year of (B)Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the (C)first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), 2 the word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the (D)people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 3 “From the (E)thirteenth year of (F)Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these (G)twenty-three years the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you (H)again and again, but you have not listened. 4 And the Lord has sent to you all His (I)servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear, 5 saying, ‘(J)Turn now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and live on the land which the Lord has given to you and your forefathers (K)forever and ever; 6 and (L)do not follow other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, then I will do you no harm.’ 7 Yet you have not listened to Me,” declares the Lord, “in order to (M)provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
8 “Therefore this is what the Lord of armies says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, 9 behold, I will (N)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, (O)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will completely destroy them and (P)make them an object of horror and hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins. 10 Moreover, I will (Q)eliminate from them the voice of jubilation and the voice of joy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the (R)sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 (S)This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for (T)seventy years.
Babylon Will Be Judged
12 ‘Then it will be (U)when seventy years are completed I will (V)punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and (W)I will make it an everlasting desolation. 13 I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in (X)this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against (Y)all the nations. 14 (For (Z)many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will (AA)repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)’”
15 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this (AB)cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and give it to all the nations to whom I send you, to drink from it. 16 Then they will (AC)drink and loudly vomit and act insanely because of the sword that I am going to send among them.”
17 So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and (AD)gave it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me, to drink from it: 18 To (AE)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings and its officials, to make them places of ruins, objects of horror, hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; 19 To (AF)Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people; 20 and to all the (AG)foreign people, all the kings of the (AH)land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the (AI)Philistines (that is, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of (AJ)Ashdod); 21 To (AK)Edom, (AL)Moab, and the sons of (AM)Ammon; 22 and to all the kings of (AN)Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of (AO)the coastlands which are beyond the sea; 23 and to (AP)Dedan, Tema, (AQ)Buz, and all who (AR)trim the corners of their hair; 24 and to all the kings of (AS)Arabia and all the kings of the (AT)foreign people who live in the desert; 25 and to all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of (AU)Elam, and all the kings of (AV)Media; 26 and to all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and (AW)all the kingdoms of the earth which are on the face of the ground; and the king of (AX)Sheshach shall drink it after them.
27 “And you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “(AY)Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up, because of the (AZ)sword which I am sending among you.”’ 28 And if they (BA)refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of armies says: “(BB)You shall certainly drink! 29 For behold, I am (BC)beginning to inflict disaster on this city which is (BD)called by My name, so should you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for (BE)I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the Lord of armies.’
30 “Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them,
‘The (BF)Lord will (BG)roar from on high
And raise His voice from His holy dwelling;
He will roar forcefully against His fold.
He will shout like those who tread the grapes,
Against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 A clamor has come to the end of the earth,
Because the Lord has (BH)a controversy with the nations.
He is entering into (BI)judgment with humanity;
As for the wicked, He has turned them over to the sword,’ declares the Lord.”
32 This is what the Lord of armies says:
“Behold, evil is going out
From (BJ)nation to nation,
And a great (BK)storm is being stirred up
From the remotest parts of the earth.
33 “Those (BL)put to death by the Lord on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other. They will (BM)not be mourned, gathered, or buried; they will be like (BN)dung on the face of the ground.
34 Wail, you shepherds, and cry out;
(BO)Wallow in the dust, you masters of the flock;
For the days of your (BP)slaughter and your dispersions have come,
And you will fall like a precious vessel.
35 There will be (BQ)no sanctuary for the shepherds,
Nor escape for the masters of the flock.
36 Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds,
And the wailing of the masters of the flock!
For the Lord is destroying their pasture,
37 And the peaceful (BR)grazing places are devastated
Because of the (BS)fierce anger of the Lord.
38 He has left His hiding place (BT)like the lion;
For their land has become a horror
Because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword
And because of His fierce anger.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 25:3
- Jeremiah 25:6
- Jeremiah 25:6
- Jeremiah 25:9
- Jeremiah 25:9
- Jeremiah 25:14
- Jeremiah 25:18
- Jeremiah 25:20
- Jeremiah 25:24
- Jeremiah 25:26
- Jeremiah 25:30
- Jeremiah 25:31
- Jeremiah 25:33
- Jeremiah 25:34
- Jeremiah 25:35
- Jeremiah 25:38
Cross references
- Jeremiah 25:1 : Jer 36:1; 46:2
- Jeremiah 25:1 : 2 Kin 24:1, 2; 2 Chr 36:4-6; Dan 1:1, 2
- Jeremiah 25:1 : Jer 32:1
- Jeremiah 25:2 : Jer 18:11
- Jeremiah 25:3 : Jer 1:2
- Jeremiah 25:3 : 2 Chr 34:1-3, 8
- Jeremiah 25:3 : Jer 36:2
- Jeremiah 25:3 : Jer 7:25; 11:7; 26:5
- Jeremiah 25:4 : 2 Chr 36:15; Jer 26:5
- Jeremiah 25:5 : 2 Kin 17:13; Is 55:6, 7; Jer 4:1; 35:15; Ezek 18:30; Jon 3:8-10
- Jeremiah 25:5 : Gen 17:8; Jer 7:7; 17:25
- Jeremiah 25:6 : Deut 6:14; 8:19; 2 Kin 17:35; Jer 35:15
- Jeremiah 25:7 : 2 Kin 17:17; 21:15; Jer 7:19; 32:30-33
- Jeremiah 25:9 : Jer 1:15; 6:22, 23
- Jeremiah 25:9 : Is 13:3; Jer 27:6; 43:10
- Jeremiah 25:9 : 1 Kin 9:7, 8; Jer 18:16; 25:18
- Jeremiah 25:10 : Is 24:8-11; Jer 7:34; 16:9; Ezek 26:13; Rev 18:23
- Jeremiah 25:10 : Eccl 12:4; Is 47:2
- Jeremiah 25:11 : Jer 4:27; 12:11, 12
- Jeremiah 25:11 : 2 Chr 36:21; Jer 29:10; Dan 9:2; Zech 7:5
- Jeremiah 25:12 : Ezra 1:1; Jer 29:10; Dan 9:2
- Jeremiah 25:12 : Is 13:14; Jer ch 50, 51
- Jeremiah 25:12 : Is 13:19
- Jeremiah 25:13 : Jer 36:4, 29, 32
- Jeremiah 25:13 : Jer 1:5, 10; 36:2
- Jeremiah 25:14 : Jer 27:7; 50:9, 41; 51:27, 28
- Jeremiah 25:14 : Jer 51:6, 24, 56
- Jeremiah 25:15 : Job 21:20; Ps 75:8; Is 51:17, 22; Jer 51:7
- Jeremiah 25:16 : Nah 3:11
- Jeremiah 25:17 : Jer 1:10; 25:28
- Jeremiah 25:18 : Ps 60:3; Is 51:17
- Jeremiah 25:19 : Jer 46:2-28; Nah 3:8-10
- Jeremiah 25:20 : Jer 25:24; 50:37; Ezek 30:5
- Jeremiah 25:20 : Job 1:1; Lam 4:21
- Jeremiah 25:20 : Jer 47:1-7
- Jeremiah 25:20 : Is 20:1
- Jeremiah 25:21 : Ps 137:7; Jer 49:7-22
- Jeremiah 25:21 : Jer 48:1-47; Amos 2:1-3
- Jeremiah 25:21 : Jer 49:1-6; Amos 1:13-15
- Jeremiah 25:22 : Jer 47:4; Zech 9:2-4
- Jeremiah 25:22 : Jer 31:10
- Jeremiah 25:23 : Is 21:13; Jer 49:7, 8
- Jeremiah 25:23 : Gen 22:21
- Jeremiah 25:23 : Jer 9:26; 49:32
- Jeremiah 25:24 : 2 Chr 9:14
- Jeremiah 25:24 : Jer 25:20; 50:37; Ezek 30:5
- Jeremiah 25:25 : Gen 10:22; Is 11:11; Jer 49:34
- Jeremiah 25:25 : Is 13:17; Jer 51:11, 28
- Jeremiah 25:26 : Jer 25:9; 50:9
- Jeremiah 25:26 : Jer 51:41
- Jeremiah 25:27 : Jer 25:16; Hab 2:16
- Jeremiah 25:27 : Ezek 21:4, 5
- Jeremiah 25:28 : Job 34:33
- Jeremiah 25:28 : Jer 49:12
- Jeremiah 25:29 : Prov 11:31; Is 10:12; Jer 13:13; Ezek 9:6; 1 Pet 4:17
- Jeremiah 25:29 : 1 Kin 8:43
- Jeremiah 25:29 : Ezek 38:21
- Jeremiah 25:30 : Is 42:13; Jer 25:38
- Jeremiah 25:30 : Joel 2:11; 3:16; Amos 1:2
- Jeremiah 25:31 : Hos 4:1; Mic 6:2
- Jeremiah 25:31 : Is 66:16; Ezek 20:35, 36; Joel 3:2
- Jeremiah 25:32 : 2 Chr 15:6; Is 34:2
- Jeremiah 25:32 : Is 30:30; Jer 23:19
- Jeremiah 25:33 : Is 34:2, 3; 66:16
- Jeremiah 25:33 : Ps 79:3; Jer 16:4; Ezek 39:4, 17
- Jeremiah 25:33 : Is 5:25
- Jeremiah 25:34 : Jer 6:26; Ezek 27:30
- Jeremiah 25:34 : Is 34:6, 7; Jer 50:27
- Jeremiah 25:35 : Job 11:20; Jer 11:11; Amos 2:14
- Jeremiah 25:37 : Is 27:10, 11; Jer 5:17; 13:20
- Jeremiah 25:37 : Ps 97:1-3; Is 66:15; Heb 12:29
- Jeremiah 25:38 : Jer 4:7; 5:6; Hos 5:14; 13:7, 8
