AB - Jeremiah - 25

25:1  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah;

25:2  which he spoke to all the people of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

25:3  In the thirteenth year of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, even until this day for twenty-three years, I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking,

25:4  and I sent to you My servants the prophets, sending them early; (but you would not listen, nor incline your ear to hear) saying,

25:5  Turn, everyone of you, from his evil way, and from your evil practices, and you shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers, forever and ever.

25:6  Do not go after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, lest you provoke Me by the works of your hands, to do you harm.

25:7  But you hearkened not to Me.

25:8  Therefore thus says the Lord: Since you did not believe My words,

25:9  behold I will send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it. And I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

25:10  And I will destroy from among them the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle.

25:11  And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.

25:12  And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.

25:13  And I will bring upon that land all My words which I have spoken against it, even all things that are written in this book.

25:15  Thus said the Lord God of Israel: Take the cup of this unmixed wine from My hand, and you shall cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send you.

25:16  And they shall drink, and vomit, and be mad, because of the sword which I send among them.

25:17  So I took the cup out of the Lord's hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink:

25:18  Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of Judah, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing.

25:19  And Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his people;

25:20  and all the mixed multitude, and all the kings of the Philistines, namely Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Azotus,

25:21  and Edom, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon,

25:22  and the kings of Tyre, and the kings of Sidon, and the kings in the country beyond the sea,

25:23  and Dedan, Tema, Buz, and everyone that is shaved round about the face,

25:24  and all the mixed multitude dwelling in the wilderness,

25:25  and all the kings of Aelam, and all the kings of the Persians,

25:26  and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdoms which are on the face of the earth.

25:27  And you shall say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty: Drink, and be drunk; and you shall vomit and fall, and shall by no means rise, because of the sword which I send among you.

25:28  And it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take the cup out of your hand, to drink it, that you shall say, Thus said the Lord; You shall surely drink.

25:29  For I am beginning to afflict the city which is called by My name, and you shall by no means be held guiltless: for I am calling a sword upon all that dwell upon the earth.

25:30  And you shall prophesy against them these words, and shall say: The Lord shall speak from on high, from His sanctuary He will utter His voice. He will pronounce a declaration on His place; and these shall answer like men gathering grapes. And destruction is coming on them that dwell on the earth,

25:31  even upon the extreme part of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with the nations, He is pleading with all flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, says the Lord.

25:32  Thus said the Lord: Behold, evils are proceeding from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind goes forth from the end of the earth.

25:33  And the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.

25:34  Howl, O you shepherds, and cry; lament, you rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and you shall fall as the choice rams.

25:35  And flight shall perish from the shepherds, and safety from the rams of the flock.

25:36  A voice of the crying of the shepherds, and a moaning of the sheep and the rams: for the Lord has destroyed their pastures.

25:37  And the peaceful dwellings that remain shall be destroyed before the fierceness of My anger.

25:38  He has forsaken His lair, as a lion: for their land has become desolate before the great sword.