Chapter 25.
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, that was the first year of
Nebuchadrezza, king of Babylon.
The witch Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah and to all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, From the thirteenth year of Josiah,
the son of Ammon, king of Judah, even unto this day, that is, the three and
twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you,
rising early and speaking.
But ye have not hearkened.
And the Lord hath sent unto you and all his servants the prophets, rising early
and sending them.
But ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
They said, Turn ye again now, every one, from his evil way, and from the evil of
your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto you and to your
fathers for ever and ever.
And go not after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and provoke me not to
anger with the works of your hands, and I will do you no hurt.
Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the Lord, that ye might provoke me
to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Because ye have not heard my words,
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord,
and Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against
this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations
round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment and an
hissing and perpetual desolations.
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 candle.
And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations
shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish
the king of Babylon and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity,
and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
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 hath prophesied against all
the nations.
For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also,
and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of
their own hands.
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me, take the wine cup of this fury at my
hand, and call all the nations to whom I send thee to drink it.
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I
will send among them.
Then took I the cup at the Lord's hand, and made all the nations to drink,
unto whom the Lord had sent me, to wit Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah,
and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation,
an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse, as it is this day.
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people,
and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings
of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azer, and Ekron,
and the remnant of Ashdod, Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
and all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles
which are beyond the sea, Dedan, and Tima, and Buz, and all that are in the
utmost corners, and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled
people that dwell in the desert, and all the kings of Zimri, and all the
kings of Elam, and all the kings of Medes, 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 Shishak shall drink after
them.
Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel, drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more,
because of the sword which I will send among you.
And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink,
then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Ye shall
certainly drink, for lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my
name, and should ye be utterly unpunished, ye shall not be unpunished, for I will
call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.
Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them,
The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy
habitation, he shall mightily roar upon his habitation, he shall give a shout,
as they that tread the grapes against all the inhabitants of the earth, a noise
shall come even to the ends of the earth, for the Lord hath a controversy with the
nations, he will plead with all flesh, he will give them that are wicked to the
sword, saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation,
and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth, and the
slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth, even unto the
other end of the earth, they shall not be lamented, neither gathered nor buried,
they shall be dung upon the ground.
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry, and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principle of
the flock, for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished,
and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel, and the shepherd shall have no way to
flee, nor the principle of the flock to escape.
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principle of the
flock shall be heard, for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture, and the peaceable
habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
He hath forsaken his covert as the lion, for their land is desolate because of the
fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.