Jer 25
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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year
of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon,)
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which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, saying:
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From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day,
these three and twenty years, the word of YHWH has come to me, and I have spoken to
you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not hearkened.
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And YHWH has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending
them, (but you have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear,)
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saying, Return you now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings,
and dwell in the land that YHWH has given to you and to your fathers, from of old
and even for evermore;
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and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not
to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
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Yet you have not hearkened to me, says YHWH; that you may provoke me to anger with
the work of your hands to your own hurt.
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Therefore thus says YHWH of hosts: Because you have not heard my words,
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behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says YHWH, and [I will
send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against
this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round
about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing,
and perpetual desolations.
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Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice
of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the
light of the lamp.
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And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations
shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish
the king of Babylon, and that nation, says YHWH, for their iniquity, and the land
of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.
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And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even
all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
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For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will
recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
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For thus says YHWH, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of anger at
my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
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And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I
will send among them.
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Then took I the cup at YHWH`s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom YHWH
had sent me:
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[to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and the princes
thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it
is this day;
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Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
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and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings
of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
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Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
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and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which
is beyond the sea;
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Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off;
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and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in
the wilderness;
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and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
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and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms
of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall
drink after them.
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And you shall say to them, Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink you,
and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I
will send among you.
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And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then shall
you say to them, Thus says YHWH of hosts: You shall surely drink.
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For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should
you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword
upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says YHWH of hosts.
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Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and say to them, YHWH will roar
from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar
against his fold; he will give a shout, as they that tread [the grapes], against all
the inhabitants of the earth.
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A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for YHWH has a controversy with the
nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give
them to the sword, says YHWH.
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Thus says YHWH of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a
great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
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And the slain of YHWH shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other
end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall
be dung upon the face of the ground.
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Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], you principal of the flock; for
the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall
like a goodly vessel.
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And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
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A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock!
for YHWH lays waste their pasture.
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And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of YHWH.
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He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because
of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.